明 董其昌 秋山圖 軸|Autumn Mountains
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 37 5/8 x 16 3/4 in. (95.6 x 42.5 cm) Overall with mounting: 84 5/8 x 23 in. (214.9 x 58.4 cm) Overall with knobs: 84 5/8 x 25 3/4 in. (214.9 x 65.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1989.363.101
Tags
Art Historical Context
Dong Qichang’s *Autumn Mountains* captures the essence of Ming dynasty landscape painting through its elegant simplicity. Created during China’s Ming dynasty (1368–1644), this hanging scroll reflects the era’s reverence for nature as a source of contemplation and moral insight. As a leading scholar-artist of his time, Dong Qichang championed the expressive potential of ink landscapes, drawing on earlier traditions while developing a distinctive approach that influenced generations of painters. Painted in ink on paper, the work exemplifies the hanging scroll format, which allowed artists to cr...
About the Artist
Dong Qichang · 1555–1636
Dong Qichang (1555–1636), born in Huating in present-day Shanghai's Songjiang region, emerged from a scholarly yet impoverished family as the son of a local school teacher. A precocious child, he passed the prefectural civil service examination at age twelve, securing entry to a government school, and later sat for the imperial exams, placing second at seventeen to his cousin due to inferior calli...