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Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain

Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain

1300s
(Chinese, c. 1289-c. 1362)
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Painting: 85.5 x 42.5 cm (33 11/16 x 16 3/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 229 x 70 cm (90 3/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.93
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The composition of two shores divided by a river was mostly famously associated with the Yuan painter Ni Zan.

Description

In this typical southern two shores divided by a river composition, two fishermen, each seated in the stern of his covered houseboat, troll their hooks in the swirling water, holding short rods fitted with spooling reels.

Zhao Yong was a son of the southern calligrapher and statesman Zhao Mengfu, who, like his father was a scholar-official in the Mongol-Yuan government. As public servants of the Yuan state and administration, scholar-artists like the Zhaos delighted in paintings that pictured them in nature as fishermen amid vistas of Jiangnan, which they considered their home.
  • Zhao Shuru 趙叔孺 [1874–1945]
    by 1947–before 1956
    Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963]
    ?–1956
    (C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry)
    1956–1997
    Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1997–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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