# River Village: Fisherman's Joy

- By: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322)
- Date: c. 1302–3
- Medium: Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.66)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.66/1978.66_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.