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River Village: Fisherman's Joy
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRiver Village: Fisherman's Joy (江村漁樂圖), c. 1302–3. Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322). Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk; overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1978.66
