Conversation in a Thatched Hut

Description

Two scholars in white robes sit conversing in a simple hut before a bamboo grove. The foreground and right side are filled with two spindly trees and a grove of banana trees among rugged rocks and precipices, all drawn in ink outline and filled in with opaque blue and green pigment.

Landscapes painted in blue and green mineral pigments often allude to the past or to paradise. Here the color may suggest that surrounded by nature, the scholars could escape the hassles of the chaotic world.

Provenance

(Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1975); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1975–)

Conversation in a Thatched Hut

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late 1200s

Accession Number

1975.21

Medium

album leaf; ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Overall: 26 x 27.3 cm (10 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund