Wen Zhengming

Garden of the Inept Administrator

1551

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Album of eight leaves; ink on paper

Dimensions

Image: 10 3/8 × 10 3/4 in. (26.4 × 27.3 cm) Image with mounting: 15 3/8 × 16 3/4 in. (39.1 × 42.5 cm) Double leaf unfolded: 15 3/8 × 33 1/2 in. (39.1 × 85.1 cm) Mat: 18 5/16 × 34 in. (46.5 × 86.4 cm)

Collection no.

1979.458.1a–ii

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Wen Zhengming. Garden of the Inept Administrator. Wen Zhengming; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1979. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.