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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Hu Zhengyan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A page from a book with a painting of a tree and rocks. The tree has bare branches with some red flowers on the left. The trunk and branches are grayish-brown. The rocks are gray. There are small yellow and green dots around the base of the tree. Chinese characters are written vertically on the right side of the page in black ink. A red seal is below the characters. The background of the page is beige.

Artwork details

Date:
first edition printed in 1633
Medium:
Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 516 px
Museum record:
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