明 董其昌 溪山樾館圖 軸|Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains
ca. 1622–25
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
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...