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Insects and Bamboo
1200s
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and light color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.8 x 25.6 cm (9 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- 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
This painting represents a microcosm (a world in small) of the Jiangnan ecosystem: while the bush cricket feeds on bamboo, the male widow-skimmer dragonfly is a predator of small insects like mosquitos. Mosquitoes, abundant in late summer and early autumn, suggest the fall season.
