Crows in Old Trees 古木寒鴉圖

Item

Title

Crows in Old Trees
古木寒鴉圖

Description

No artist’s signature or inscription

Artist's seals

Luo shi Zhichuan 羅氏稚川
Youxi hanmo 遊戲翰墨

identifier

41193

Source

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41193

Creator

Luo Zhichuan
羅稚川

annotates

Label strips

1. Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C. C. Wang, 1907–2003), 1 column in standard-clerical script, undated; 1 illegible seal:

Anonymous Yuan painting, Crows in Old Trees, divine class. Authenticated by Zhenyuan [Wang Jiqian].

元人 《古木寒鴉圖》 神品。真園鑑定。

2. Artist unknown, 1 column in standard script, undated:

Song painter Li Yingqiu’s [Li Cheng’s, 919-967] Crows in Old Trees, a genuine work of the divine class.

宋李營丘 《古木寒鴉圖》 真跡,神品。

Abstract

Collectors' seals

Yuan Zhongche 袁忠徹 (1377–1459)
Zhangun Tang 瞻袞堂
Nanchang Yuan shi jiacang zhenwan zisun yongbao 南昌袁氏家藏珍玩子孫永保

Illegible: 1

Rights Holder

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Identifier

1973.121.6

References

Fong, Wen C., and Marilyn Fu. Sung and Yuan Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973, pp. 95–96, 104, 147, cat. no.16.

Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編 (Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings: vol. 1 American and Canadian collections) Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982, p. 2, cat. no. A1-002.

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. 121–26, figs. 55, 57.

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. 116, fig. 110.

Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 405, pl. 92.

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. 158–59, pls. 98, 98a.

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