
Insects and Flowers
1865 · Album of eight leaves; ink and color on paper
Image (each): 12 3/4 × 14 1/8 in. (32.4 × 35.9 cm)
Mat (each): 18 × 19 3/8 in. (45.7 × 49.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ju Lian, a native of Panyu (番禺, now Guangzhou, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was 'Ancient Spring', and self-given pseudonym 'Old Man of the Divided Mountain'. He was the younger brother of the painter Ju Chao. He was known for his bird-and-flower paintings as well as people and plant-and-insect paintings. He was the teacher of the brothers Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng.
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