# Monkey Offering a Qin to Scholar

- By: Tanomura Chikuden (Japanese, 1777–1835)
- Date: 1833
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: Image: 42 15/16 × 10 3/4 in. (109.1 × 27.3 cm) Overall with mounting: 72 13/16 × 16 1/16 in. (184.9 × 40.8 cm) Overall with knobs: 72 13/16 × 18 3/4 in. (184.9 × 47.6 cm)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/897132)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/as/web-large/DP-31406-002.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)