Landscape

Unidentified artist

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This painting was acquired for The Met in Beijing in 1913 by the missionary and educator-turned-art-dealer John Calvin Ferguson. Ferguson believed the painting to be by the tenth-century master Dong Yuan, but modern scholars recognize the constricted space and patternized brushwork as signs of a seventeenth-century copy

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art