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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)
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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 1982.68.12
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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.

Description

Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected Orthodox ideas about painting.
A horizontal album leaf in ink and light color on off-white paper depicts a boy riding a gray water buffalo on the right. A gnarled tree with sparse green leaves and dark buds leans over a textured rock in the center. Along the left edge, vertical Chinese calligraphy and a red seal feature against the empty background. Delicate brushwork and muted tones define the serene, sparsely composed landscape.

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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