Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar under a Pine Tree

Also known as: Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: An Old Man Sits under a Pine Tree, a Boy is behind a Stone

Inscriptions

In the daytime, I sit on the root of a pine tree, I wash my eyes to watch the floating clouds." not signed, with a seal of the artist.

?–1982: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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.: 1982.68.1

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