Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu
Dong Qichang
dated 1611 and 1612
Medium
Handscroll; ink on satin
Dimensions
10 1/5 x 86 1/4 in. (25.9 x 219.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Wan-go H. C. Weng, 1955
Accession Number
55.211.1
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...