DETAILS
- Artist
- Ma Yuan
- Date
- 1190
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Image: 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. (25.1 x 26 cm)
- Collection
- Asian Art
- Culture
- China
- Credit line
- Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973
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THE ARTIST
Ma Yuan
Ma Yuan, a master of Southern Song dynasty landscape painting, pioneered the distinctive 'one-corner' composition.