Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
first edition printed in 1679
Medium
Circular fan-shaped woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
9 5/8 x 11 13/16 in. (24.4 x 30 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1924
Accession Number
CP25
Tags
About the Artist
Ni Zan · 1301–1374
Ni Zan (1301–1374), born into a wealthy scholarly family in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, exemplified the reclusive literati ideal during the turbulent Yuan dynasty. Receiving a rigorous Confucian education amid Mongol rule's restrictions on Han Chinese officials, he cultivated poetry, calligraphy, and painting as expressions of personal integrity rather than professional pursuits. No formal teachers or...