Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man Resting under Bamboo

Also known as: Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Man Lies in a Bamboo Grove

Inscriptions

Calligraphy above and to left of image; seal below calligraphy on left

?–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.

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.: 1982.68.5

Conversation in Autumn
Hua Yan
1732 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009407
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo
Hua Yan
1745 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009823
Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems
Hua Yan
1745 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010098
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink
Hua Yan
1745 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010165