Collection Online as of March 27, 2023
late 1200s-early 1300s
(Chinese, active 1270–1310)
Handscroll; ink and slight color on silk
Image: 24.8 x 240.3 cm (9 3/4 x 94 5/8 in.); Overall: 25.7 x 904.4 cm (10 1/8 x 356 1/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1961.206
Inscriptions
Inscription Artist's signature [and probable seal]: Yan Qiuyue 顏秋月
Title on frontispiece and 1 seal of Niu Shuyu 鈕樹玉 (1760-1827): Qiuyue mohuan 秋月墨幻 [Qiuyue's Ink Fantasy].
31 additional seals: 2 of Yang Shiqi 楊士奇 (1365-1444); 2 of An Guo 安國 (1481-1534); 8 of Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525-1590); 2 of Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640-1686); 4 of Pu Tung 溥侗 (1870-1952); 7 of Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911-1991); 1 of Liu Ting-chih (20th c.); 5 unidentified.
Inscription An inscription by Zizhi Shanren 紫芝山人 [probably Jiang Hui 蔣惠], dated 1389
Inscription An inscription by Wu Kuan 吳寬 (1436–1504)
Yan Hui Yan Hui was a professional painter skilled in painting landscapes, figures, deities, and ghosts. He was a native of Luling 廬陵, Jiangxi 江西 province, active in the late Southern Song and early Yuan dynasty.
Provenance Yang Shiqi 楊士奇 [1365–1444]
Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590]
Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686]
?-1961
(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1961-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei . München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no. 27
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 261
archive.org
Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. Reproduced: cat. no. 206
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 261
archive.org
Dubosc, Jean-Pierre. “Plum Blossoms in Moonlight: A Round Fan Painting Signed Yen Hui.”
Archives of Asian Art , vol. 26, 1972, pp. 67–70. Reproduced: pp. 67-70, fig. 4
www.jstor.org
Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art . New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 14
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 345
archive.org
Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 91, pp. 111-112
Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 50, cat. no. 27
Shanghai bo wu guan 上海博物館. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. Reproduced: cat. no. 43, pp. 367-377
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 105; reproduced: pp. 90–91
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 85-89
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Mentioned: pp. 85
Exhibition history
Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368 . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968).
Looking East . The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (1976).
Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122) . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei . Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
Year in Review (1961) . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).
The Colors of Ink . Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
Looking East: Yuan Dynasty Paintings . Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (September 15-November 6, 1976).
Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).
The Twain Shall Meet . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).
Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art . Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections . Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).
Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016).
