Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin
1745
Hua Yan
Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
Chinese Art
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin, 1745. Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765). Album leaf, ink and light color on paper; image: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); album, closed: 15 x 18.5 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1982.68.11 The figure in pink is playing a qin, a seven-stringed zither. The sound of the musical instrument symbolizes the harmony between humanity and nature; literati are often depicted playing qin in landscape settings.
- Maker/Artist
- Hua Yan
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Album, closed: 15 x 18.5 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Calligraphy and seal, upper right corner
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1982.68.11
- Credit Line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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