Landscape in the manner of Wang Meng
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.The densely stacked and swirling mountain forms of this painting evoke Wang Meng, the fourteenth-century artist. Though this work is unsigned, it is close to the style of the sixteenth-century painter Wen Boren, who revered Wang Meng and made many paintings in his manner
Artwork Details
- 明 佚名 倣王蒙山水圖 軸
- Title: Landscape in the manner of Wang Meng
- Artist: Unidentified artist (Chinese, late 16th century)
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Date: late 16th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 55 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (141.6 × 39.4 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Promised Gift of Julia and John Curtis, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
- Object Number: L.2020.10.10
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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