清 梅清 雲谷曳杖圖 軸, Strolling in a Misty Valley, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1649, China, Hanging scroll; ink on satin, Image: 61 3/8 x 20 1/2 in. (155. 9 x 52. 1 cm), Paintings, Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623?1697), Mei Qing was born into a prominent family in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, about seventy-five miles south of Nanjing. Mei followed the family tradition of scholarship. By age sixteen he had become a prefectural-level student (zhusheng), and in 1642 he published his first collection of poems