宋/明? 佚名 仿王齊翰 挑耳圖 卷|Library Scene
10th century
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 9 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (25.1 × 47.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Song dynasty (?) (960–1279)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.18.49
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About this artwork
This elegant handscroll painting, attributed to Wang Qihan or an unidentified artist working in his manner, dates from the 10th century and exemplifies the refined scholarly aesthetic of Chinese Song dynasty painting. Executed in ink and color on silk, the work depicts an intimate library scene that celebrates the literati culture central to Chinese civilization. The Song dynasty (960-1279) witnessed the flowering of monumental landscape painting and sophisticated genre scenes showing the daily ...