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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse

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 1982.68.8
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Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected orthodox ideas about painting.
An album leaf displays an ink and light color painting. On the left, bare trees rise from pale ground. At the center, a light brown horse bows its head as a boy with ruffled hair and a light skin tone stands behind, holding its lead. The upper right corner features vertical columns of Chinese calligraphy and a square red seal, all positioned against a cream-colored background.

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse

1745

Hua Yan

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

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