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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar under a Pine Tree

1745

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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 1982.68.1

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

In the daytime, I sit on the root of a pine tree, I wash my eyes to watch the floating clouds." not signed, with a seal of the artist.

Provenance

?–1982

(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1982–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55. Mentioned: no. 84, p. 53 www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).