The Classic of Filial Piety

Creator Name

Li Gonglin

Cultural Context

China

Date

ca. 1085

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description

Handscrolls

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Title

The Classic of Filial Piety

Creator

Li Gonglin, Chinese, ca. 1041–1106, Artist

Worktype

Paintings

Cultural Context

China

Material

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Overall (a, painting): 8 5/8 x 187 1/4 in. (21.9 x 475.6 cm) Overall (b, colophons): 10 3/8 x 208 5/8 in. (26.4 x 529.9 cm) Overall (c, modern copy preserving seventeenth century silk restorations): 9 1/8 x 196 in. (23.2 x 497.8 cm);
height: 21.9centimetre;
width: 475.6centimetre;
height: 23.2centimetre;
width: 497.841centimetre;
height: 26.4centimetre;
width: 529.90857centimetre

Technique

Language

Date

ca. 1085

Provenance

Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, From the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Family Collection, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 1996

Style Period

Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Subjects

Women; Men

Topic

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