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Portrait of Bi Shichang, from the set Five Old Men of Suiyang

Unidentified artist

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A standing man with light brown skin. He wears a long, dark robe with folded sleeves. A square piece of fabric sticks out of the folds. The robe gathers in horizontal folds at the bottom. A white undergarment shows at the neck. He has a mustache and a thin beard. He wears a tall, flat, dark hat. The background is mottled light brown. There are several lines of vertical foreign writing on the left. The image has a thin light border.

Artwork Details

Date
before 1056
Medium
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Culture
China
Dimensions
500 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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