明 程嘉燧 山水二幅 冊頁|Two Landscapes
Medium
Two leaves from an album; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Each: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
Accession Number
2015.500.8.2a, b
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold Cheng Jiasui's *Two Landscapes*, a pair of exquisite album leaves from the Ming dynasty (1368–4), a golden era for Chinese painting when artists masterfully captured the sublime beauty of nature Created by the renowned Cheng Jiasui (1565–1643), a of the Wu school from Jiangsu province, these-format works (each 14 x 14 inches) exemplify the intimate scale of album pages, designed for private contemplation by scholars and collectors. Rendered in ink and color paper, the paintings showcase's precise "professional" style, blending meticulous brushwork with layered washes to evoke misty mou...