Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3
Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694)
early 1650s
Medium
album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
21 × 22 cm · image: 12.6 × 17.3 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1975.22.3
Tags
male
About this artwork
Fan Qi's painting for the third leaf of the album evokes Wang Wei's poetic line: Sit and watch the clouds rising. Xu Fang's calligraphic colophon reads: Green are the reeds, the sun not yet set; Tree foliage and mountain colors divide the lake into two halves. A solitary recluse sits upon a flat bluff, Occasionally observing white clouds rising from the mountain tops.