明 佚名 風雨艤舟圖 團扇|Misty Landscape
15th–16th century
Medium
Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 8 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (22.5 x 20.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
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
47.18.37
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate *Misty Landscape*, or *Wind and Rain Moored Boat* (風雨艤舟圖), is a 15th–16th century Ming dynasty fan painting by an unidentified artist, now mounted as an album leaf.ed in ink and color on silk, it captures a poetic scene of a lone boat moored amid towering shrouded in mist, swirling clouds, and the drama of wind and rain. The intimate scale—measuring just 8⅞ × 8¹/₁₆ inches—invites close contemplation, evoking the transient beauty of nature central to Chinese literati culture. During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), such fan paintings were prized personal objects, often created by sc...