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River Village: Fisherman's Joy
Zhao Mengfuc. 1302–3
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: River Village: Fisherman's Joy
- Creator: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322)
- Date Created: c. 1302–3
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.66
- Medium: Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Inscriptions: 江村漁樂 子昂。 [印] 趙氏子昂, 1 colophon and 2 additional seals: 1 colophon, unsigned; 2 seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907-2003).
- Fun Fact: Various human elements can be found in the painting: two fishermen, an individual with a donkey, and someone in the house.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 1978.66
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