Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu 虞山林壑圖
Item
Title
Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu
虞山林壑圖
虞山林壑圖
Description
Artist’s inscription and signature (6 columns in standard script)
Chen Fan (active mid-2nd c.) prepared a bed
Only when Xu Ru (active mid-2nd c.) came for a visit.
The water from the well in Yan You’s [Yan Yan, zi Ziyou, 506 B.C. –?] neighborhood
[in Changshu] is sweet and cool,
Whereas Yuzhong's [Ji Zhongyong, 12th c. B.C.] shrine [on Mount Yu] is desolate from neglect.
We watch the clouds and daub with our brushes;
We drink wine and write poems.
The joyous feelings of this day
Will linger long after we have parted.[1]
On the thirteenth of the twelfth lunar month of the xinhai year [January 19, 1372], I paid a visit to the lofty hermit Bowan and painted the Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu with a poem in five-character lines as a memento of this trip. Ni Zan
陳蕃懸榻處，徐孺過門時。
甘冽言游井，荒涼虞仲祠。
看雲聊弄翰，把酒更題詩。
此日交歡意，依依去後思。
辛亥十二月十三日訪伯琬高士，因寫《虞山林壑》并題五言，以紀來游。倪瓚
[1] Translation from Wen C. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th – 14th Century (New York, 1992), p. 490. Modified.
Chen Fan (active mid-2nd c.) prepared a bed
Only when Xu Ru (active mid-2nd c.) came for a visit.
The water from the well in Yan You’s [Yan Yan, zi Ziyou, 506 B.C. –?] neighborhood
[in Changshu] is sweet and cool,
Whereas Yuzhong's [Ji Zhongyong, 12th c. B.C.] shrine [on Mount Yu] is desolate from neglect.
We watch the clouds and daub with our brushes;
We drink wine and write poems.
The joyous feelings of this day
Will linger long after we have parted.[1]
On the thirteenth of the twelfth lunar month of the xinhai year [January 19, 1372], I paid a visit to the lofty hermit Bowan and painted the Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu with a poem in five-character lines as a memento of this trip. Ni Zan
陳蕃懸榻處，徐孺過門時。
甘冽言游井，荒涼虞仲祠。
看雲聊弄翰，把酒更題詩。
此日交歡意，依依去後思。
辛亥十二月十三日訪伯琬高士，因寫《虞山林壑》并題五言，以紀來游。倪瓚
[1] Translation from Wen C. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th – 14th Century (New York, 1992), p. 490. Modified.
identifier
45636
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45636
Creator
Ni Zan
倪瓚
倪瓚
annotates
Other inscriptions
1. Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590), inventory character:
Qi 豈
2. Qing emperor Qianlong 清帝乾隆 (1711–1799; r. 1736-95), 8 columns in semi-cursive script， dated 1759; 2 seals:
把酒看雲事真逸，
志遊寫照興猶賒。
金閶白甫斯郊島，
秀削何妨自一家。
己卯春月御題。[印]： 幾暇臨池，乾隆宸翰
1. Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590), inventory character:
Qi 豈
2. Qing emperor Qianlong 清帝乾隆 (1711–1799; r. 1736-95), 8 columns in semi-cursive script， dated 1759; 2 seals:
把酒看雲事真逸，
志遊寫照興猶賒。
金閶白甫斯郊島，
秀削何妨自一家。
己卯春月御題。[印]： 幾暇臨池，乾隆宸翰
Abstract
Collectors’ seals
Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590)
Molin miwan 墨林秘玩
Xiang Zijing jia zhencang 項子京家珍藏
Xiang Yuanbian yin 項元汴印
Xiang Molin jianshang zhang 項墨林鑑賞章
Tui mi 退密
Zuili 檇李
Ruoshui Xuan 若水軒
Shenyou xinshang 神游心賞
Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
Zhenmi 珍秘
An Qi 安岐 (1683–ca. 1746)
Yizhou jianshang 儀周鑑賞
Qing emperor Qianlong清帝乾隆 (r. 1736–95)
Shiqu baoji 石渠寶笈
Qianlong yulan zhi bao 乾隆御覽之寶
Qianlong jianshang 乾隆鑑賞
Chunhua Xuan 淳化軒
Chunhua Xuan tushu zhenmibao 淳化軒圖書珍秘寶
Qianlong chenhan 乾隆宸翰
Xintian Zhuren 信天主人
Sanxi Tang jingjian xi 三希堂精鑑璽
Yi zisun 宜子孫
Chen Kuilin 陳夔麟 (1855–1928)
Kuilin 夔麟
Xu An 徐安 (20th c.)
Xu An 徐安
Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (1907–2003)
Jiqian xinshang 季遷心賞
Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911–1991)
Tan Jing 譚敬
Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1961)
Xiyi 希逸
Unidentified:
Zisun baozhi 子孫保之
Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590)
Molin miwan 墨林秘玩
Xiang Zijing jia zhencang 項子京家珍藏
Xiang Yuanbian yin 項元汴印
Xiang Molin jianshang zhang 項墨林鑑賞章
Tui mi 退密
Zuili 檇李
Ruoshui Xuan 若水軒
Shenyou xinshang 神游心賞
Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
Zhenmi 珍秘
An Qi 安岐 (1683–ca. 1746)
Yizhou jianshang 儀周鑑賞
Qing emperor Qianlong清帝乾隆 (r. 1736–95)
Shiqu baoji 石渠寶笈
Qianlong yulan zhi bao 乾隆御覽之寶
Qianlong jianshang 乾隆鑑賞
Chunhua Xuan 淳化軒
Chunhua Xuan tushu zhenmibao 淳化軒圖書珍秘寶
Qianlong chenhan 乾隆宸翰
Xintian Zhuren 信天主人
Sanxi Tang jingjian xi 三希堂精鑑璽
Yi zisun 宜子孫
Chen Kuilin 陳夔麟 (1855–1928)
Kuilin 夔麟
Xu An 徐安 (20th c.)
Xu An 徐安
Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (1907–2003)
Jiqian xinshang 季遷心賞
Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911–1991)
Tan Jing 譚敬
Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1961)
Xiyi 希逸
Unidentified:
Zisun baozhi 子孫保之
Rights Holder
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
1973.120.8
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Barnhart, Richard M. Along the Border of Heaven: Sung and Yüan Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 162–65 (ill. p. 163), fig. 77.
Fong, Wen C. et al. Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University. Exh. cat. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1984, p. 125–26, fig. 118.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, p. 87, pl. 52.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 430, 492–94, pls. 118 and 118a, b.
Wu Sheng 吳升. Daguan lu 大觀錄 (Records from a grand view). Preface dated 1712, juan 11. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chinese painting and calligraphy) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 8, p. 510.
Wu Qizhen 吳其貞. Shuhua ji 書畫記 (On calligraphy and painting). Ca. 1677, juan 5. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chinese painting and calligraphy) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 8, p. 98.
Howard, Kathleen, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. 2nd ed., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, p. 113, fig. 47.
Yang Zhenguo 杨振国. Haiwai cang Zhongguo lidai ming hua: Liao, Jin, Xixia, Yuan 海外藏中国历代名画: 辽, 金, 西夏, 元 (Famous paintings of successive periods in overseas collections) Edited by Lin Shuzhong 林树中. vol. 4, Changsha: Hunan meishu chubanshe, 1998, pp. 178–79, pls. 113, 113a.
Mair, Victor H., Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, and Paul Goldin, eds. Hawai'i Reader In Traditional Chinese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005, pp. 422–23, fig. 95.
Chen Kuilin 陳夔麟. Baoyu Ge shuhua lu 寳迂閣書畫錄 (Catalogue of calligraphies and paintings of the Baoyu Ge Studio). Prefaced dated 1915, Juan 1, pp.5a–6a. Reprinted in Lidai shuhualu jikan 歷代書畫錄輯刋 (Compendium of publications on painting and palligraphy from successive periods) Beijing: Beijing Tushuguan chubanshe, 2007, vol. 13, pp. 321–23.
Hearn, Maxwell K. How to Read Chinese Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, pp. 100–105, cat. no. 23.
He Muwen 何慕文 (Hearn, Maxwell K.). Ruhe du Zhongguo hua: Daduhui Yishu Bowuguan cang Zhongguo shuhua jingpin daolan 如何读中国画 : 大都会艺术博物馆藏中国书画精品导览 (How to read Chinese paintings) Translated by Shi Jing 石静. Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2015, pp. 100–105, cat. no. 23.