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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence
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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."
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAlbum of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence, 1745. Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765). Album leaf; ink and light color on paper; album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund, 1982.68.3
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