
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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