Plum Blossoms and Peonies
1741
- Medium
- handscroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 26 × 96.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112358
One of the so-called Yangzhou Eccentrics (a group of painters who lived in Yangzhou and were known for their unorthodox art and lifestyle), Gao Fenghan depicts China’s two most loved flowers in full bloom—the “cold beauty,” or plum blossom, in the first section, and the “king of flowers,” or peony, in the second section. Painted in 1741, the year when Gao decided to leave the south and return home to Shandong province in eastern China, this work was likely a token of farewell. His casual brushwork may indicate his mental and physical struggle at the time. After having crippled his right hand …
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.13
Registry history
- 1741 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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