清 佚名 倣董其昌 倣米氏雲山圖 卷|Cloudy Mountain in the Style of Mi Fu (1052–1107)
Medium
Handscroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 86 in. (26.7 x 218.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.220.126
Tags
MountainsLandscapes
About the Artist
Dong Qichang|Unidentified artist · 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...