The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo
1745
(Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
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.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
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.- ?–1982(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1982–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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
- China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.68.12