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Returning Peasants in a Spring Evening
by Tao Hong
About the Artwork
Although little known today, Tao Hong was a versatile artist who here depicts farmers returning home after a day in the fields. The shallow stream and dormant rice fields, the returning birds, and light sprinkles of green foliage all indicate the beginning of the farming season and hope for a good harvest. While this leaf depicts rural life, the second one,1999.224, is of a more poetic nature. A lone crane stands in a bamboo grove. By using light colors and nuanced brushwork, Tao Hong achieves an effect of natural light and luminosity.
Exhibition history
Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Tao Hong (Chinese, active c. 1610–1640)
- Date
- early 1600s
- Medium
- album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.5 x 26.7 cm (9 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
- Accession no.
- 1999.223
More by Tao Hong in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010181
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