The Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight
late 1400s
Du Jin
Du Jin (Chinese, 1446-c. 1519)
Chinese Art
The Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight, late 1400s. Du Jin (Chinese, 1446-c. 1519). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; image: 156.4 x 72.4 cm (61 9/16 x 28 1/2 in.); overall with knobs: 286.4 x 99 cm (112 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.582 Lin Bu withdrew from prestigious government service and lived as a hermit by the West Lake in Hangzhou.
- Maker/Artist
- Du Jin
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 156.4 x 72.4 cm (61 9/16 x 28 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 286.4 x 99 cm (112 3/4 x 39 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 陪月閒行杖屨遲，半醒時節更相宜。 吟成疎音寒香句，為問梅花知不知。 檉居杜堇 [印]一書生 Translation: Artist's inscription, signature, and seal at upper left: Accompanying the moon, his walk slowed to a leisurely pace./ This was all the more fitting as he was merely half awake./ Having composed the line of sparse sound and chilled fragrance,/ ’Tis time to ask: Was the plum blossom aware of its own essence? Chengji, Du Jiin [seal] Yi shu sheng Inscription: 1 seal of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963) Inscription: 1 seal of C. C. Wang [Wang Jiqian] 王季遷 (1907–2003) Inscription: 1 unidentified seal
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1954.582
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Art: The International Language, 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Chinese Painter as Poet, Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen, Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation), <em>Chiao-yü-pu</em>. [Jiao yu bu di er ci quan guo mei shu zhan lan hui zhuan ji 敎育部第二次全國美術展覽會專集 = A special collection of the second National Exhibition of Chinese Art under the auspices of the Ministry of Education]. Nanking Art Gallery, Nanjing, China (April 1-23, 1937)., <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954)., <em>Chinese Paintings</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 19-August 7, 1960)., <em>One Thousand Years of Chinese Painting: Tʻang to Chʻing (800 to 1800) : an Exhibition of Fifty Representative Works Borrowed from Major American Collections</em>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (February 14-March 31, 1968)., <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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