明 董其昌 山水圖詩 冊|Landscapes and Poems
17th century, probably after 1625
Medium
Album of eight paintings and eight calligraphies; ink, gold and color on gold-flecked paper
Dimensions
12 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (32.1 x 23.2 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, 1989
Accession Number
1989.372a–h
Tags
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...