Sparse trees and pavilion 蕭林寂亭圖
Item
Title
Sparse trees and pavilion
蕭林寂亭圖
蕭林寂亭圖
Description
Artist’s inscription and signatures
(1 column in standard script)
Shuming
叔明
(3 columns in standard script)
In the empty grove the whistling wind makes the leaves dance;
The thatch pavilion is silent, the sun stands at high noon.
All day long the south wind caresses the green waves;
With a gauze cap of coarse hemp one feels no trace of summer's heat.
This rustic’s dwelling is near Yellow Crane Peak;
In the evening he enters a deserted grotto and listens to the mountain rain.[1]
Shuming [Wang Meng] inscribed this for [Chen] Weiyin.
空林蕭蕭葉自舞，草亭寂寂日卓午。
綠波終日受南風，紗巾葛綌無纖暑。
野人家近黃鶴峯，暮入空巖聽山雨。
叔明為惟寅題。
Artist's seals
Wang Meng yin 王蒙印 (twice)
Illegible: [1]
[1] Translation from Department records.
(1 column in standard script)
Shuming
叔明
(3 columns in standard script)
In the empty grove the whistling wind makes the leaves dance;
The thatch pavilion is silent, the sun stands at high noon.
All day long the south wind caresses the green waves;
With a gauze cap of coarse hemp one feels no trace of summer's heat.
This rustic’s dwelling is near Yellow Crane Peak;
In the evening he enters a deserted grotto and listens to the mountain rain.[1]
Shuming [Wang Meng] inscribed this for [Chen] Weiyin.
空林蕭蕭葉自舞，草亭寂寂日卓午。
綠波終日受南風，紗巾葛綌無纖暑。
野人家近黃鶴峯，暮入空巖聽山雨。
叔明為惟寅題。
Artist's seals
Wang Meng yin 王蒙印 (twice)
Illegible: [1]
[1] Translation from Department records.
identifier
44702
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44702
Creator
Wang Meng
王蒙
王蒙
annotates
(none)
Abstract
Collectors’ seals
Kong Guangtao 孔廣陶 (active ca. 1851–1854)
孔氏鑒定
Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C. C. Wang, 1907–2003)
季遷心賞
Unidentified
一丘一壑
Kong Guangtao 孔廣陶 (active ca. 1851–1854)
孔氏鑒定
Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C. C. Wang, 1907–2003)
季遷心賞
Unidentified
一丘一壑
Rights Holder
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
1991.438.2
References
Cahill, James. An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 458–59, pl. 107.
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. 36, fig. 36.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 458–59, pl. 107.
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. 36, fig. 36.