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明 佚名 唐寅(僞款) 蕉葉仕女圖 卷|Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf
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明 佚名 唐寅(僞款) 蕉葉仕女圖 卷|Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf

Date unknown

Medium

Handscroll; ink on silk

Dimensions

Image: 8 × 24 1/4 in. (20.3 × 61.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947

Classification

Paintings

Department

Asian Art

Culture

China

Period

Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Rights

Public Domain

About Tang Yin

1470–1524Ming dynasty

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.