Chinese Sages (detail)
Japan, Momoyama period, late 16th-early 17th century
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Fund, Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, by exchange, and Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2020 (2020.359.1, .2)
Aaron Rio
Associate Curator of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 4, 2021; 6–7PM
Webinar
This talk will introduce Chinese Sages, a monochrome ink screen painting from Momoyama-period Japan recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rio will examine the Chinese origins and medieval Japanese reception of the work’s paired figural subjects—two ancient legends related to reclusion and nonconformity—and will consider issues of style, date, and authorship.