Asking About the Way at Kongtong Artist: Unknown
Artist, traditionally attributed: Wu Daozi (Chinese, 689–758)

late 16th–early 17th century

Asian Art

Medium

Hand scroll, ink and color on silk

Dimensions

without mounting: 21 1/16 × 350 in. (53.5 × 889 cm)
with mounting: 21 1/4 in. (53.975 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

1996.28.1

Geography
Culture
Period

Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Purchased by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1996
Object copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

handscrolls

Subject

mountains

Signed

Spurious signature of Wu Daoxuan (Wu Daozi, active 710-760)

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