Exhibition Dates: July 13, 2024–January 5, 2025
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Douglas Dillon Galleries, Galleries 210-216
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(New York, July 13, 2024)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired its first Chinese painting in 1902. Since then, the Museum has added more than two thousand works of painting and calligraphy, building one of the most comprehensive collections in the world. Opening July 13, 2024, The Museum will present an exhibition featuring works of Chinese painting and calligraphy drawn entirely from The Met collection. Spanning a millennium and a half of cultural production and a variety of genres, techniques, and styles, The Met collection has become a key resource for the study of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This exhibition presents a rich selection of more than 90 works from the collection arranged in a largely chronological display.
The exhibition is made possible by the Joseph Hotung Fund.
Through a range of works, the exhibition will introduce key themes of Chinese history, culture, and art. Highlights include a group of paintings of palace women, including Palace Banquet, one of the Museum’s earliest and most important Chinese paintings; a long scroll of cursive calligraphy, Song of the Stone Drums, by Xianyu Shu (1246–1302); Cloudy Mountains, one of the surviving masterpieces of the Daoist landscape painter Fang Congyi (about 1301–after 1378); Shitao’s touching album Returning Home (about 1695); and the magisterial Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Four, a production of the Qing-dynasty imperial workshops that depicts the emperor surveying hydroengineering projects in the late 18th century.
Credits and Related Content
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: Selections from the Collection is curated by Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, the Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Curator of Chinese Paintings in the Department of Asian Art.
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July 13, 2024
Contact: Margaret-Anne Logan
Communications@metmuseum.org
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