On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Travelers in a landscape
Tang Yin Chinese
Not on view
Tang Yin was one of the most talented and versatile artists of sixteenth-century Suzhou. After early success in the official examinations, he was dismissed from office due to scandal in 1498; returning home to Suzhou without further prospects for a career in government, he devoted himself to a career in the arts, especially painting. Tang was capable of painting in the spare, scholarly tone of his friends Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming (whose works are on view in the previous gallery), but he could also paint in the manner you see here, with the polish and finesse of a professional painter. In this particularly fine example of Tang’s meticulous mode, he uses carefully calibrated ink washes and precise brushwork to create a transporting vision of figures moving through a forbidding mountainscape.
On view from August 12, 2023–January 7, 2024
