Travelers in a landscape
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.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 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.
Artwork Details
- 明 唐寅 琴書遠逰圖 軸
- Title: Travelers in a landscape
- Artist: Tang Yin (Chinese, 1470–1524)
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Date: early 16th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 65 1/2 × 33 3/4 in. (166.3 × 85.7 cm)
Overall with mounting: 9 ft. × 43 in. (274.3 × 109.2 cm)
Overall with knobs: 9 ft. × 47 1/2 in. (274.3 × 120.7 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lent by a private collection
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art