南宋/元 佚名 呂洞賓過岳陽樓圖 扇|The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion
late 13th–early 14th century
Medium
Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 9 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (23.8 × 25.1 cm) Mat: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Southern Song, Yuan or early Ming dynasty
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.170.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang*, a delicate fan painting from the late Southern Song or early Yuan dynasty (late 13th–early 14th century). Crafted by an unidentified artist using ink and color on silk this intimate work—originally a folding fan now mounted as an album leafcaptures a mythical moment: the Daoist immortal Lü Dongbin, one of China's revered Eight Immortals, ethereally above the iconic Yueyang Pavilion on Dongting Lake. Lü Dongbin, a sword-wielding scholar immortal symbolizing Taoist enlightenment and moral virtue, often appears in art as a wandering sa...