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

1745

Hua Yan

Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)

Chinese Art

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo, 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 1982.68.12 Tending water buffalos has traditionally been the task of young boys and can still be seen in rural areas of Southern China today.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Hua Yan
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Medium: album, leaf, ink, light, color, 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: 小雨涼生犢背春 / 乙丑小春新羅山人 Remark: Artist's seal and inscription dated 1745 to the left of image. Hua Yan was known by the sobriquet Xinluo Shanren 新羅山人.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1982.68.12
Credit Line: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
Exhibitions: China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail
Rights Statement: CC0
Museum Location: 010 Focus Gallery