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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink
Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
1745
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected Orthodox ideas about painting.
