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Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene

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Date: 1347
Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper
Culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Department: Chinese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 160133

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The flower-and-bird subjects here are depicted in a meticulous manner, echoing the academic tradition but translating the customarily colored images to plain monochrome. Fine ink lines combined with carefully graded washes define the contours and give subtle modeling to the natural forms. Wang Yuan excelled in flower-and-bird subjects as well as landscape and figure paintings. A child prodigy, he was instructed by the great Yuan master Zhao Mengfu at an early age. Wang Yuan was from Qiantang, today’s Hangzhou in eastern China.

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Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Provenance: Qing imperial collection [seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–95] | Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963] | ?-1960: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry) | 1960-1997: Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1997-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Chinese Hanging Scroll Paintings
All objects are Chinese paintings executed as hanging scrolls using ink and/or color on paper, representing traditional East Asian artistic formats and techniques.
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