# Herbaceous Peony, in Chinese Painting

Yun Shouping painted this in 1685, aged 52. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Yun Shouping came from Piling (modern Changzhou), Jiangsu province, a center of floral, plant, and insect painting. He had joined the anti-Manchu resistance, was briefly imprisoned, and witnessed the death of family members in 1644. Like other artists, Yun Shouping expressed his Ming loyalism in coded pictures.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1685
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Painting: 118.7 x 71.8 cm (46 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 226 x 84.4 cm (89 x 33 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.192
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Yun Shouping](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/yun-shouping), Chinese, 1633–1690

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