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Hua Yan

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man

1705
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

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Hua Yan's autobiographical inscription, full of remorse and insecurity, is squeezed into the contour of a hill in the upper left.

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