River Village: Fisherman's Joy

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River Village: Fisherman's Joy

Zhao MengfuLinkedCulture matchlcp-825fe3c4addb

Date
c. 1302–3
Medium
Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk
Culture
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
149413

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The artist of this blue-green–style landscape, Zhao Mengfu, was a southerner, versed in all fields of literati pursuits, such as calligraphy and connoisseurship. A princeling of the defeated Southern Song dynasty, he was nevertheless successfully recruited by Khubilai Khan to the Mongol court in the new capital, Dadu (modern Beijing), in 1286. This painting combines a distinctively southern flat watery landscape combined with features of the northern landscape tradition, notably the spiky trees, branches, and rough-surfaced rocks. Various human elements can be found in the painting: two fishermen, an individual with a donkey, and someone in the house.

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Credit line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance
?–1978: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1978–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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    Chinese landscape paintings

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