DETAILS
- Artist
- Ma Yuan
- Date
- 1200
- Medium
- Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Image: 9 3/4 × 9 15/16 in. (24.8 × 25.2 cm)
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THE ARTIST
Ma Yuan
Ma Yuan, a master of Southern Song dynasty landscape painting, pioneered the distinctive 'one-corner' composition.