Detail of the Handscroll Searching the Mountains for Demons by Zheng Zhong in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2009

Artist: Zheng Zhong (Chinese, active ca. 1612–1648)

Title/Object Name: Searching the Mountains for Demons

Culture: China

Period: late Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions: 10 5/8 in. x 27 ft. 9 1/2 in. (27 x 847.1 cm)

Classification: Painting

Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1991

Accession Number: 1991.14

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