Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse, by Hua Yan, 1745
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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse

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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected orthodox ideas about painting.