Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Wat

A figure in a wide-brimmed hat sits atop a water buffalo on a sloping bank beside a gnarled, leaning tree and a rock. Pale green foliage drifts across the upper branches, and a few sprigs of grass sit near the rock. Ink and light color on paper, with calligraphy and a red seal in the upper left.

Look closer: A red seal near the lower left of the calligraphy column.

Artist

Hua Yan

Date

1745

Medium

Album leaf; ink and light color on paper

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 2833 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund