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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8
Fan Qiearly 1650s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Leaf 8 Li Bing's colophon reads: Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing, Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light. The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers. No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of their absent partners.
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- Title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8
- Creator: Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694)
- Date Created: early 1650s
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Provenance: Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924], (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.8
- Medium: album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Original Title: 山水花鳥圖冊
- Inscriptions: Artist seal: Fan Qi 樊圻. Poem by Li Bing 李炳 (17th century): Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing,/ Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light./ The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers./ No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of the absent partners.
- Fun Fact: The rock changes from ocher to green deepening into azurite blue accented with delicate dots of malachite green.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 1975.22.8
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