Summer Landscape
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 45 x 19 1/2 in. (114.3 x 49.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming (1368–1644) or Qing (1644–1911) dynasty
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mary Griggs Burke, 1962
Accession Number
62.102
Tags
MountainsLandscapesTreesSummer
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...