Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence
Medium
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
each painting: 11.2 × 13.1 cm · album, closed: 15.4 × 18.5 × 3.1 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1982.68.3
Tags
male
About this artwork
Hua Yan’s painting of a gentleman admiring orange chrysanthemums evokes a quote from the poem Drinking Wine by poet and recluse Tao Qian (also called Tao Yuanming, AD 365–427): "I pluck chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and serenely I gaze at the southern mountains."