Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence
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."
Credit: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
1745
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
11.2 x 13.1cm
1982.68.3
Image and text: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023
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