1745
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence is a 1745 unspecified by Hua Yan, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A man stands by a fence, looking at chrysanthemums. He's holding a staff and wearing traditional clothes. The painting shows a quiet moment in nature. The man's calm mood is interesting. He seems lost in thought, enjoying the flowers. This feeling is connected to a poem by Tao Qian, a Chinese poet. The painting is at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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."
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…
See the richer artist page
