明 佚名 唐寅(僞款) 蕉葉仕女圖 卷|Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf
Medium
Handscroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
Image: 8 × 24 1/4 in. (20.3 × 61.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.18.129
Tags
SleepingWomen
About the Artist
Tang Yin · 1470–1524
Talented painter whose career as an official painter was ruined by an examination scandal in 1499. Around 1500 he began to study painting with Zhou chen. He was ultimately considered one of the Four Masters of the Ming, along with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying.