中国・唐の玄宗皇帝の時代に活躍した宮廷画家で、生まれた年や亡くなった年ははっきりしません。貧しい家の出身で、詩人で画家の王維に才能を見出されたと伝えられます。馬の画家・曹覇に学び、皇帝の名馬たちを数多く描いて、中国の歴史でも指折りの「馬の名人」とたたえられました。代表作《照夜白図》はメトロポリタン美術館にあります。
Han Gan was a court painter in the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty in China. His exact dates are unknown. He came from a poor family, and it is said that the poet and painter Wang Wei discovered his talent. He studied with the horse painter Cao Ba and painted many of the emperor's finest horses. He is praised as one of the greatest horse painters in Chinese history. His masterpiece, Night-Shining White, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
