清 佚名 倣董其昌 行書題王霽宇繡佛齋圖七絕詩 扇頁|Poem
17th century or later
Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
Dimensions
6 11/16 x 20 1/2 in. (17.0 x 52.1 cm)
Classification
Calligraphy
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.100.72
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...