Crooked Pine 老松圖
Item
Title
Crooked Pine
老松圖
老松圖
Description
Artist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in cursive script)
In winter, the eleventh lunar month of the third year of the Yuantong reign era [1335], while visiting the Cloud Grotto, I saw a crooked and twisting ancient pine. Thereupon I brushed this picture to record what I saw. An ink-play by Meihua Daoren [Wu Zhen].[1]
元統三年冬十一月因游雲洞見老松屈曲，遂寫圖此，以紀其所見也。梅花道人戲墨。
Artist's seals
Meihua An 梅花
Jiaxing Wu Zhen Zhonggui shuhua ji 嘉興吳鎮仲圭書畫記
[1] Translation from Wen C. Fong. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 446. Modified.
In winter, the eleventh lunar month of the third year of the Yuantong reign era [1335], while visiting the Cloud Grotto, I saw a crooked and twisting ancient pine. Thereupon I brushed this picture to record what I saw. An ink-play by Meihua Daoren [Wu Zhen].[1]
元統三年冬十一月因游雲洞見老松屈曲，遂寫圖此，以紀其所見也。梅花道人戲墨。
Artist's seals
Meihua An 梅花
Jiaxing Wu Zhen Zhonggui shuhua ji 嘉興吳鎮仲圭書畫記
[1] Translation from Wen C. Fong. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 446. Modified.
identifier
41462
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41462
Creator
Wu Zhen
吳鎮
吳鎮
annotates
Label strip
Unidentified artist, 3 columns in Japanese in standard script, undated (at the back of the mounting):
Ancient Pine painted by Wu Zhen
Wu Zhen, whose self-adopted names include Zhonggui, Plum-blossom Daoist, Plum Daoist, and Plum Monk, was a native of Jiaxing [in Zhejiang]. He was one of the four masters of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). He died in the fourteenth year of the Zhizheng reign era [1354] at the age of 75. A treasure in the collection of Dongguan Shuwu (Gazing Eastward Studio)[2]
吳鎮筆 《老松圖》
吳鎮字囗仲圭、梅花道人、梅道人，又囗梅沙彌囗號囗，嘉興囗人。元季四大家囗一人囗囗。至正十四年七十五嵗囗囗囗卒囗。東觀書屋寶藏
[2] Translation from Department records.
Unidentified artist, 3 columns in Japanese in standard script, undated (at the back of the mounting):
Ancient Pine painted by Wu Zhen
Wu Zhen, whose self-adopted names include Zhonggui, Plum-blossom Daoist, Plum Daoist, and Plum Monk, was a native of Jiaxing [in Zhejiang]. He was one of the four masters of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). He died in the fourteenth year of the Zhizheng reign era [1354] at the age of 75. A treasure in the collection of Dongguan Shuwu (Gazing Eastward Studio)[2]
吳鎮筆 《老松圖》
吳鎮字囗仲圭、梅花道人、梅道人，又囗梅沙彌囗號囗，嘉興囗人。元季四大家囗一人囗囗。至正十四年七十五嵗囗囗囗卒囗。東觀書屋寶藏
[2] Translation from Department records.
Abstract
Collector’s seal
Unidentified
蘭囗囗子囗囗 Lan ? ? zi ? ?
Unidentified
蘭囗囗子囗囗 Lan ? ? zi ? ?
Rights Holder
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
1985.120.1
References
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, p. 86, pl. 51.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 447–49, pls. 102, 102a, b.
Hearn, Maxwell K., and Wen C. Fong. Along the Riverbank: Chinese Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 98, fig. 70.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 447–49, pls. 102, 102a, b.
Hearn, Maxwell K., and Wen C. Fong. Along the Riverbank: Chinese Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 98, fig. 70.