1745
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse is a 1745 unspecified by Hua Yan, a Baroque work, depicting Oxen, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A boy in blue stands beside a white horse. The horse looks small next to him. Behind them, misty mountains fade into a pale sky. Hua Yan was part of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. They broke from old painting rules on purpose. The boy wears simple clothes. The horse stands calm, not moving. See this painting up close at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Hua Yan is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, who rejected orthodox ideas about painting.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Hua Yan simplified Chinese: 华嵒; traditional Chinese: 華嵒; pinyin: Huà Yán; Wade–Giles: Hua Yen; courtesy name Qiu Yue (秋岳), sobriquets Xinluo Shanren (新罗山人), Dong Yuan Sheng (东园生), Buyi Sheng (布衣生), Ligou Jushi (离垢居士)and…
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