元 倪瓚 秋林野興圖 軸|Enjoying the Wilderness in an Autumn Grove
dated 1339
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 38 5/8 × 27 1/8 in. (98.1 × 68.9 cm) Overall with mounting: 8 ft. 10 7/8 in. × 35 7/8 in. (271.5 × 91.1 cm) Overall with knobs: 8 ft. 10 7/8 in. × 40 in. (271.5 × 101.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1989.363.38
Tags
About the Artist
Ni Zan · 1301–1374
Ni Zan (1301–1374), born into a wealthy scholarly family in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, exemplified the reclusive literati ideal during the turbulent Yuan dynasty. Receiving a rigorous Confucian education amid Mongol rule's restrictions on Han Chinese officials, he cultivated poetry, calligraphy, and painting as expressions of personal integrity rather than professional pursuits. No formal teachers or...