明 董其昌 荊谿招隱圖 卷|Invitation to Reclusion at Jingxi
Dong Qichang
1611
Medium
Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 1/4 × 36 7/16 in. (26 × 92.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H. C. Weng, 1990
Accession Number
1990.318
Tags
MountainsLandscapes
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...