明 董其昌 行書節錄謝惠連《雪賦》 卷|Excerpt from Xie Huilian’s Prose Poem “On Snow”
Medium
Handscroll; ink on satin
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 72 5/16 in. (26.7 x 183.7 cm)
Classification
Calligraphy
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1989.363.98
About the Artist
Dong Qichang · 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...