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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

Wang Gai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A traditional Chinese ink painting on aged paper. A landscape scene with a tree on a rocky outcropping to the left, and a body of water with more rocks and cliffs in the background to the right. A red seal stamp is on the left side of the painting. Chinese calligraphy characters are written vertically on the upper left side of the painting.

Artwork details

Date:
first edition printed in 1679
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 491 px
Museum record:
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