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Song of One Year
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Song of One Year

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Edward Elliott Family Collection, Douglas Dillon Gift, 1988

Classification

Calligraphy

Department

Asian Art

Culture

China

Period

Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Rights

Public Domain

About Tang Yin

1470–1524Ming dynasty

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.