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Landscape for Zhao Yipeng
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Landscape for Zhao Yipeng

late 15th–early 16th century

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Image: 28 x 55 in. (71.1 x 139.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1967

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.