明 董其昌 溪山樾館圖 軸|Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains

Dong Qichang

ca. 1622–25

明 董其昌 溪山樾館圖 軸|Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains by Dong Qichang

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Dimensions

Image: 62 3/8 x 28 3/8 in. (158.4 x 72.1 cm) Overall with mounting: 99 x 33 1/8 in. (251.5 x 84.1 cm) Overall with knobs: 99 x 37 in. (251.5 x 94 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

1979.75.2

Tags

LandscapesMountainsTrees

About the Artist

Dong Qichang · 15551636

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...

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