Three Horses and Four Grooms (1318) is the most famous painting by Ren Renfa, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland. Leading Horses out of Stable and A Fat and a Thin Horse are the next two works the world knows best. From the 3 works of Ren Renfa in our catalogue, here are the 3 that collectors and museum visitors look at most, with the year, the museum and the story of each.
Ranked by our popularity score, which combines the searches, visits and orders for each work. Updated Ekim 2026. Every masterpiece on this page can be ordered as a museum-quality, hand-painted oil reproduction or a fine art print, at the size you choose.
The 2 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Ren Renfa | Paintings from this list |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Palace Museum |
Beijing | 2 | Leading Horses out of Stable, A Fat and a Thin Horse |
 Cleveland Museum of Art |
Cleveland | 1 | Three Horses and Four Grooms |
1318 is the year of every dated Ren Renfa masterpiece on this page: here they are, in order of fame.
Three Horses and Four Grooms (1318), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Next come Leading Horses out of Stable and A Fat and a Thin Horse.
64 years old: Three Horses and Four Grooms dates from 1318 and Ren Renfa was born in 1254.
Our catalogue lists 3 works by Ren Renfa.
Most of them are in The Palace Museum (Beijing) and Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland). The table above lists the museums one by one.
Leading Horses out of Stable and A Fat and a Thin Horse are among the 2 works on this page held by the The Palace Museum, Beijing.
Yes. Every painting on this page can be ordered as a museum-quality, hand-painted oil reproduction or a fine art print, in the size you choose, from the painting's own page.
Ren Renfa was an expert of irrigation works, artist, and a government official of the Yuan dynasty. Born in Qinglong Town, Songjiang, he also served as a hydrological engineer, where his work included dredging an area in what is now Beijing to improve the water supply and leading a team to build embankments after the Yellow River burst its banks.
His paintings include subjects such as horses, people, flowers, and birds. One prominent work is Chu Yu Tu (Coming out of the Stable), a painting on silk with color that depicts three officials of the royal stables leading four horses out of a stable. The figures in this work are dressed in Tang style costumes.
Another significant work is Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback, a two-metre scroll depicting five princes on horseback with four attendants. This piece includes Li Longji, who later became the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. Ren Renfa also produced the work Fat and Lean Horses, which contains an inscription explaining that the fat horse represents the self-satisfied, wealthy official while the lean one represents the humble, poor, self-deprecating official.