Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010230Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin
by Hua Yan
Also known as: Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Figures Outside: One Listens while the Other Plays the Qin
About the Artwork
The figure in pink is playing a qin, a seven-stringed zither. The sound of the musical instrument symbolizes the harmony between humanity and nature; literati are often depicted playing qin in landscape settings.
Inscriptions
試鼓邱中琴，便有人出幽
Provenance
?–1982: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
- Date
- 1745
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.68.11
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