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.
- 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: 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
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 010 Focus Gallery
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