Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010232Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden
by Hua Yan
Also known as: Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women Sit at a Table within a Circle Visible in a Landscape
About the Artwork
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 CMA 2022.23. 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.
Inscriptions
Seal, lower left corner
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.
- 1982.68.6
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