Elephant, Horse, and Hare

A gray-brown ink elephant dominates the upper half of this album leaf, its trunk curling down toward a sketched striped tiger lying in shallow ripples. A small hare crouches in outline near the lower left, all against a pale, unpainted ground.

Look closer: A hare crouches in faint outline in the lower left, easy to miss against the pale paper.

Artist

Min Zhen

Date

1788

Medium

album leaf, ink on paper

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

2232 × 3400 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund