明 董其昌 草書王維 送別詩 軸|Poem by Wang Wei
after 1632
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 74 3/8 × 29 1/4 in. (188.9 × 74.3 cm) Overall with mounting: 8 ft. 7 3/4 in. × 34 1/4 in. (263.5 × 87 cm) Overall with knobs: 8 ft. 7 3/4 in. × 38 in. (263.5 × 96.5 cm)
Classification
Calligraphy
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1989.363.100
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...