Conversation in Autumn
1732
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- 116 × 40 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-110812
Two figures sit conversing in a thatched cottage. This painting illustrates two poetic lines:My guest came to sit beyond the dust, In a narrow room, we talked about the autumnal sounds of autumn. Hua Yan presented an intimate world—simple and rustic—amid a landscape. The cool wilderness depicted in this work conveys an aloofness that may reveal the inner world of a scholar-artist who failed the civil service examination but preserved a sense of pride and endurance in his humble surroundings.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1954.263
Registry history
- 1732 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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