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雑畫圖冊 Elephant, Horse, and Hare, Min Zhen 閔真, China, ca. 1750

Cleveland Art Museum

Provenance: John L. Severance Fund 1985

Sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 ¼ in.)

Min Zhen 閔貞 (1730? - 1788?) also known as Zheng Zhai 正齋 was a Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, who spent most of his life in Hubei. He was noted for painting human figures and doing occasional finger painting. He was orphaned at an early age and is sometimes associated with the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, a group painters active in the eighteenth-century, who were known in the Qing Dynasty for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individualist.