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Landscape with Poet Tao Yuanming (365–472 CE)
1200s–1400s
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or earlier
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- 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
Poet Tao Yuanming (365–427 CE) turned down a civil service career in politically turbulent times to write poetry and enjoy his garden. In his poem Drinking Wine, he wrote: "I pluck chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and serenely I gaze at the southern mountains." His desire to leave bureaucratic life for the simplicity and authenticity of nature has deeply resonated with generations of Chinese scholars, making it a popular theme in paintings.
