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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Three Big Trees, a Stream with an Old Man Sitting on the Bank

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 x 13.1 cm (4 5/16 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 1982.68.2

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Coming and sitting down on the bank, I want to find some nice words for my poem. I watch the clear water washing the root of the stones. 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