Poem Commemorating an Imperially Bestowed Feast
dated 1632
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 60 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. (154.6 x 54.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 105 3/4 x 28 1/4 in. (268.6 x 71.8 cm) Overall with knobs: 105 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (268.6 x 81.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1979
Accession Number
1979.500.2
Tags
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...