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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 2
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About this work
Fan Qi's painting on this second leaf of the album is, perhaps, based on Du Mu's poetic line: The herdboy pointed to the distant Apricot Village. Han Tan's calligraphic colophon facing the painting reads: A thousand feet of red cliffs look like a sculptured flower of furong ; In one glance, the long bridge joins adjacent ridges. Furthermore a wine shop stands in a bamboo grove; The fellow who bought some good wine is drunk on the eastern shore of the stream.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAlbum of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 2 (山水花鳥圖冊), early 1650s. Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694). Album leaf, ink and color on silk; image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1975.22.2
