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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence

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 1982.68.3
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Hua Yan’s painting of a gentleman admiring orange chrysanthemums evokes a quote from the poem Drinking Wine by poet and recluse Tao Qian (also called Tao Yuanming, AD 365–427): "I pluck chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and serenely I gaze at the southern mountains."
An ink and light color painting on a square album leaf depicts an elderly man in a light blue robe walking right through a landscape of spindly, bare trees rendered in gray washes. He holds a thin staff, set against a pale background. In the lower right, vibrant orange flowers grow along a low wooden fence. A vertical column of black calligraphy and a red seal occupy the left side.

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence

1745

Hua Yan

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

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