元 吳鎮 老松圖 軸|Crooked Pine
dated 1335
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
Image: 65 3/8 x 32 1/2 in. (166.1 x 82.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 100 1/2 x 37 1/8 in. (255.3 x 94.3 cm) Overall with knobs: 100 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (255.3 x 102.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1985
Accession Number
1985.120.1
Tags
About the Artist
Wu Zhen · 1280–1354
A scholar of the Yijing (‘Book of changes’), he practised fortune-telling to make a living. As a painter he was not as successful commercially as Sheng Mao (one of his neighbours), but he had his own circle of literati friends, including such painters as Wu Guan and Zhang Guan and such scholars as Tao Zhongyi. Chen (style name; Chung-kuei, sobriquets; Mei-hua tao-jen and Mei-sha-mi) was a native o...