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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink

1745

Hua Yan 華喦

(Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
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Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1982.68.10
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Description

Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected Orthodox ideas about painting.
An album leaf in ink and light color depicts a man in a pink robe and a child in blue under a thatched roof. The man sits behind a table with a scroll while the child prepares ink. A gnarled tree with dark, feathery leaf clusters curves over the open pavilion. Calligraphy and a red seal mark the upper left corner. The scene is rendered with delicate lines and muted tones against a pale background.

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink

1745

Hua Yan

(Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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