Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund

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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden

1745

ArtistHua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)

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Medium: Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions: 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.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Album leaf
Origin: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund

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Provenance

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?–1982

(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1982–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Two women doing needlework are confined in an interior space. The other 11 paintings in this Hua Yan album show men in nature. The women may experience the natural world only through the large moon-shaped window open to a garden. Prominently displayed in the garden is a Taihu stone, like <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.23">CMA 2022.23</a>. <br><br>Taihu stones are valued for their natural shapes and sculptural qualities and are a cultural peculiarity. These perforated limestones were originally sourced from Lake Tai in southeast China from where they got their names. Large ones were set up like sculptures in gardens, like the one in this painting.

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