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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden

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 1982.68.9
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Description

Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected orthodox ideas about painting.
A horizontal ink and color painting depicts five children with light skin tones near a large, porous gray rock. In the center, a blindfolded child in a reddish tunic reaches toward another in pale blue. One child peeks through a rock opening while two others stand to the left. Pale green leaves and pink blossoms sprout around the group, and a red seal marks the lower right against the plain paper.

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden

1745

Hua Yan

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

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