Song of One Year
Tang Yin
dated 1522
Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper
Dimensions
Image: 6 13/16 x 19 5/8 in. (17.3 x 49.8 cm)
Classification
Calligraphy
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Elliott Family Collection, Douglas Dillon Gift, 1988
Accession Number
1988.394.2
About the Artist
Tang Yin · 1470–1524
Talented painter whose career as an official painter was ruined by an examination scandal in 1499. Around 1500 he began to study painting with Zhou chen. He was ultimately considered one of the Four Masters of the Ming, along with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying.