
Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo
Hua YanLinkedCulture matchlcp-2ee46b83b347
- 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
- Object ID
- 151028
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1982: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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