Shen Zhou
Anchorage on a rainy night
dated 1477 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, 2015. 2017.327.1.
Museum record · Public Domain / Met Open Access image
Painting and inscription
The Met relates the painting to a boat stay with a friend after rain. Its record provides the poem and inscription in translation, and describes a responding poem by Wu Kuan.
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