# Living Aloft, in Chinese Painting

Wen Zhengming painted this in 1543, aged 73. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1543
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 37 1/2 x 18 in. (95.3 x 45.7 cm) Overall with mounting: 82 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. (208.6 x 64.1 cm) Overall with knobs: 82 1/8 x 29 5/8 in. (208.6 x 75.2 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017.327.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Wen Zhengming](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/wen-zhengming), Chinese, 1470–1559

1 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Wen Zhengming's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-wen-zhengming?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More paintings of the 16th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-16?hang=750) (95 works)
- [16th-century China](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16-china?hang=750) (8 works)

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