The Classic of Filial Piety, by Li Gonglin, ca. 1085
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The Classic of Filial Piety

Li Gonglin (Chinese, ca. 1041–1106)

ca. 1085

Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
Overall (a, painting): 8 5/8 x 187 1/4 in. (21.9 x 475.6 cm) Overall (b, colophons): 10 3/8 x 208 5/8 in. (26.4 x 529.9 cm) Overall (c, modern copy preserving seventeenth century silk restorations): 9 1/8 x 196 in. (23.2 x 497.8 cm)
Culture
China
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
Credit line
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, From the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Family Collection, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 1996
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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