Simple Retreat

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Artist: Wang Meng (Chinese, ca. 1308–1385)
Date: ca. 1370
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 53 3/4 × 17 5/8 in. (136.5 × 44.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 8 ft. 5 1/4 in. × 24 3/4 in. (257.2 × 62.9 cm) Overall with knobs: 8 ft. 5 1/4 in. × 28 11/16 in. (257.2 × 72.9 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: Asian Art
Credit line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 2012
Accession no.: 2012.526.2

Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen 林麓幽居圖
Wang Meng 王蒙
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), dated 1361 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001127
Writing Books under the Pine Trees
Wang Meng 王蒙
c. 1308–85 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00009534
Sparse trees and pavilion
Wang Meng 王蒙
late 1350s · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00014153
Red Cliffs and Green Valleys
Wang Meng 王蒙
ca. 1367 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00014194

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.