Lotuses, Insects, and Birds
Unknown Artist
1800s
Medium
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
174.5 × 77.5 cm · image: 112.6 × 57.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
1985.18
About this artwork
Pairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Given its subject matter, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer.