This exhibition spans a millennium and a half of cultural production and a variety of genres, techniques, and styles, with 90 works, to introduce key themes of Chinese history, culture, and art. Highlights include Palace Banquet, one of the Met’s earliest and most important Chinese paintings; Xianyu Shu’s (1246–1302) calligraphy Song of the Stone Drums; Cloudy Mountains, one of the surviving masterpieces of the Daoist landscape painter Fang Congyi (about 1301–after 1378); Shitao’s touching Returning Home (about 1695); and the magisterial Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Four.
The Met — “Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: Selections from the Collection”
