The Simple Retreat 素庵圖

Item

Title

The Simple Retreat
素庵圖

Description

Artist’s inscription and signature (1 column in seal script, 2 columns in standard script)

Simple Retreat
The Woodcutter of the Yellow Crane Mountain, Wang Meng, painted this for the lofty scholar of the Simple Retreat.
《素庵圖》
黃鶴山樵王蒙為素庵高士畫。

Artist’s seal

Wang Meng yin 王蒙印

identifier

39550

Source

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39550

Creator

Wang Meng
王蒙

annotates

Label Strip

Unidentified artist, 1 column in semi-cursive script, undated:

The Mountain Woodcutter’s [Wang Meng's] Simple Retreat, on paper, a supreme work of the divine class. Recorded by Boheng.
山樵 《素庵圖》 軸,紙本,無上神品。 伯珩記。

Abstract

Collectors’ seals

Luo Feng 羅鳳 (1465–after 1536)
Yingang Luo Feng tuji 印岡羅鳳圖籍

He Liangjun 何良俊 (1506–1573)
Qingsen Ge shuhua yin 清森閣書畫印
He shi Yuanlang 何氏元朗

Yue Zhongqi 岳鍾琪 (1686–1754)
Chen Yue Zhongqi gongcang 臣岳鍾琪恭藏

Qian Daxin 錢大昕 (1728–1804)
Daxin 大昕
Zhuting 竹汀

He Yuanyu 何瑗玉 (2nd half of 19th c.)
Qu An shending zhenji 蘧盦審定真蹟

Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C.C. Wang, 1907-2003)
Wang shi Jiqian zhencang zhi yin 王氏季遷珍藏之印

Rights Holder

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Identifier

2012.526.2

References

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