清 佚名 倣董其昌 倣米氏雲山圖 卷|Cloudy Mountain in the Style of Mi Fu (1052–1107)
Medium
Handscroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 86 in. (26.7 x 218.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.220.126
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Dong Qichang|Unidentified artist · 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...