元 姚彥卿 (廷美) 雪山行旅圖 軸|요언경, 눈 덮인 산 속 나그네 중국 원|Traveling through Snow-Covered Mountains
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
Image: 38 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (98.4 × 54.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 85 1/8 × 27 3/4 in. (216.2 × 70.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 85 1/8 × 31 1/4 in. (216.2 × 79.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 2011
Accession Number
2011.573
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the Yuan dynasty (1271–8), a time when Mongol rulers governed China yet fostered a revival of scholarly arts, Yao Yanqing (also known as Tingmei) this captivating hanging scroll, *Traveling through Snow-Covered Mountains Rendered in delicate ink on silk, the measures nearly 39 by 22 inches in its image alone, designed to unroll for intimate contemplation in a studio or scholar's chamber. This format, popular among literati painters, allowed viewers to savor the painting's rhythms much like poetry. Yao masterfully evokes the sublime harshness of winter in the rugged Chinese landscape tradit...
About the Artist
Yao Yanqing (Tingmei) · 1300–1370
Yao Tingmei, also known as Yao Yanqing or simply Tingmei (ca. 1300–after 1360), was a Chinese landscape painter active during the late Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), a period marked by Mongol rule, political instability, and the rise of literati art as a form of cultural resistance and introspection. Born in Wuxing (present-day Huzhou), Zhejiang province—a vibrant hub of scholarly activity—he embodied ...