Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene
詳細資料
The flower-and-bird subjects here are depicted in a careful and meticulous manner, echoing the academic tradition but translating the customary colored images to plain monochrome. Fine ink lines combined with carefully graded washes define the contours and give subtle modeling to the natural forms. Wang Yuan from Qiantang (Hangzhou) excelled in flower-and-bird subjects as well as landscape and figure paintings. A child prodigy, he was instructed by the great Yuan master Zhao Mengfu at an early age.
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Qing imperial collection [seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–95]
Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963]
?-1960(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry)
1960-1997Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1997-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Painting: 114.3 x 56 公分 (45 x 22 1/16 英吋)
Overall with knobs: 267.5 x 85 公分 (105 5/16 x 33 7/16 英吋)
紙本
至正丁亥春 錢塘王淵若水寫秋景鶉雀圖
[印] 澹轩; [印] 若水; [印] 墨妙筆精
Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: In the year of Zhizheng, spring of dinghai [1347], Wang Yuan, Ruoshui of Qiantang, drew this picture of Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene.
[seals] Danxuan; Ruoshuii; Mo miao bi jing.
翦翦輕風搖翠葆,團團清露滴金叢。
劍南畫手今何在,冷落賓榔枸杞新。
鐵篴
[印] 杨维桢印; [印] 廉夫
1 poem and 2 seals of Yang Weizhen (1296-1370):
How lovely is the light breeze that stirs the verdant foliage./
Like pearls the fresh dew drips over the golden groves./
Where is the painter now, who hailed from Jian’nan?/
Like the leftover betel nut, it is being replaced with fresh goji berry.
Tiedi.
[Seals] Yang Weizhen yin; Lianfu
1 inscription and 10 seals of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95)
4 seals of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915-1963)
水墨