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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo

1745

Hua Yan 華喦

(Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Image: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Album, closed: 15 x 18.5 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1982.68.12
Location: not on view
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Tending water buffalos has traditionally been the task of young boys and can still be seen in rural areas of Southern China today.

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Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected Orthodox ideas about painting.
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo

1745

Hua Yan

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

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