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

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Hua Yan

Date
1745
Medium
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected Orthodox ideas about painting. Tending water buffalos has traditionally been the task of young boys and can still be seen in rural areas of Southern China today.

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