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

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 1982.68.12

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

小雨涼生犢背春 / 乙丑小春新羅山人

Inscription Remark

Artist's seal and inscription dated 1745 to the left of image. Hua Yan was known by the sobriquet Xinluo Shanren 新羅山人.

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

China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).