Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
Dimensions
Upper: W.: 52.8 cm (20 3/4 in.); Lower: W.: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.); Rib: H.: 17.8 cm (7 in.)
Classification
album leaf
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43158
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...