清 清初八大家山水冊|Landscapes Painted for Wang Kui
1674–76
Medium
Album of eight painted leaves; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Each leaf: 9 x 12 1/4 in. (22.9 x 31.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1979
Accession Number
1979.500.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Wang Jian · 1609–1677
Wang Jian (1609–1677) was a leading Chinese landscape painter of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, born into a prominent literati family in Taicang, Jiangsu province. As the great-grandson of the distinguished scholar, official, and collector Wang Shizhen, he inherited a rich assemblage of ancient masterpieces that shaped his artistic vision from an early age. After earning the juren degree ...