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Min Zhen

Su Dongpo

1788
album leaf, ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 (1037–1101) is the likely model, but the gentleman is holding an incense burner instead of an ink stone more commonly associated with the famed poet.

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