Summer retreat in the eastern grove

Wen Zhengming, calligraphy datable to 1512

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Summer retreat in the eastern grove, calligraphy datable to 1512. Handscroll; ink on paper.

Handscroll; ink on paper · Image (painting): 12 1/2 × 42 1/2 in. (31.8 × 108 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum title: Summer retreat in the eastern grove
Artist: Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559)
Date: calligraphy datable to 1512
Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image (painting): 12 1/2 × 42 1/2 in. (31.8 × 108 cm) Image (colophon): 12 1/2 × 38 3/8 in. (31.8 × 97.5 cm) Overall with mounting: 13 in. × 9 ft. 9 1/2 in. (33 × 298.5 cm)
Credit line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1470–1559

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.