Bamboo Studies
Medium
Handscroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
13 1/2 in. × 17 ft. 3 3/4 in. (34.3 × 527.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644) (?)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.100.34
Tags
About the Artist
Wu Zhen|Unidentified artist · 1280–1354
A scholar of the Yijing (‘Book of changes’), he practised fortune-telling to make a living. As a painter he was not as successful commercially as Sheng Mao (one of his neighbours), but he had his own circle of literati friends, including such painters as Wu Guan and Zhang Guan and such scholars as Tao Zhongyi. Chen (style name; Chung-kuei, sobriquets; Mei-hua tao-jen and Mei-sha-mi) was a native o...