The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Snow Clearing: Landscape after Li Cheng

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Snow Clearing: Landscape after Li Cheng

Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717)

Calligrapher:: Inscribed by Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717)
Period:: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date:: Dated 1669
Culture:: China
Medium:: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:: Image: 44 3/8 x 14 1/8 in. (112.7 x 35.9 cm) Overall with mounting: 89 1/4 x 20 7/8 in. (226.7 x 53 cm) Overall with knobs: 89 1/4 x 24 1/8 in. (226.7 x 61.3 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, in honor of Professor Wen Fong, 1978
Accession Number:: 1978.13

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