# Album of Calligraphy and Paintings

- By: Bian Shoumin (Chinese, 1684–1752)
- Date: first half of the 1700s
- Medium: album leaf; ink and color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 18.5 x 27.5 cm (7 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Y. K. Hsu, Dr. Daphne T. Hsu, and Dr. Jeffrey T. Hsu in memory of Robert P. Bergman
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.260.f)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1999.260.f/1999.260.f_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 Bian Shoumin is known for his depiction of wild geese, water, and reeds. The migrant birds in autumn and winter evoked, in the minds of the Chinese intelligentsia, a time of parting and sorrow.