Mountain Landscape 山水圖
Item
Title
Mountain Landscape 山水圖
Description
(none)
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1944.52
Creator
Unidentified artist
annotates
Outside label 1: Anonymous
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on brown paper slip
Two characters, standard script
曹興
Cao Xing
Outside Label 2: Anonymous (20th century)2
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on cream paper.
2 columns, running-standard script
Erroneous attribution to Cao Yuankuo 曹元廓 (active late 7th century)
唐， 曹興，一名元廓。天后時，朝散大夫、左尚方令。師閻立本、王洽，工人馬、山水，
善於布置。《圖繪寶鑑》。
Cao Xing of the Tang dynasty had another given name: Yuankuo. During the time of Empress
[Wu Ze]tian [reigned 690–705], [he held the ranks of] Grand Master for Closing Court and Left
Director of Imperial Manufactories. [In painting] he took Yan Liben [ca. 600–674] and Wang
Xia [8th century] as his masters; he was skilled [at painting] horses and people as well as
landscape, and good at composition. [Quoted from] the Tuhui Baojian [Precious Mirror of
Painting].3
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on brown paper slip
Two characters, standard script
曹興
Cao Xing
Outside Label 2: Anonymous (20th century)2
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on cream paper.
2 columns, running-standard script
Erroneous attribution to Cao Yuankuo 曹元廓 (active late 7th century)
唐， 曹興，一名元廓。天后時，朝散大夫、左尚方令。師閻立本、王洽，工人馬、山水，
善於布置。《圖繪寶鑑》。
Cao Xing of the Tang dynasty had another given name: Yuankuo. During the time of Empress
[Wu Ze]tian [reigned 690–705], [he held the ranks of] Grand Master for Closing Court and Left
Director of Imperial Manufactories. [In painting] he took Yan Liben [ca. 600–674] and Wang
Xia [8th century] as his masters; he was skilled [at painting] horses and people as well as
landscape, and good at composition. [Quoted from] the Tuhui Baojian [Precious Mirror of
Painting].3
Abstract
3 Total
1. Cao Zhibai 曹知白 (1272–1355)4
– (1) – real or fake?
Yunxi 『雲西』 (rectangle intaglio) – lower left
2. Yuan dynasty official seal5
– (1)
[Dusheng shuhua zhi] yin『[都省書畫之]印』(square relief, lower left corner) – upper right
3. Unidentified (Yuan?) official seal – (1)
Undeciphered official seal (rectangle relief; right edge) – upper left
1. Cao Zhibai 曹知白 (1272–1355)4
– (1) – real or fake?
Yunxi 『雲西』 (rectangle intaglio) – lower left
2. Yuan dynasty official seal5
– (1)
[Dusheng shuhua zhi] yin『[都省書畫之]印』(square relief, lower left corner) – upper right
3. Unidentified (Yuan?) official seal – (1)
Undeciphered official seal (rectangle relief; right edge) – upper left
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1944.52
References
Huggins, Mabel Irene. “Some Aspects of Chinese Fans.” In Antiques Journal 16 (April 1961): 6.
Fu Shen 傅申. Yuandai huangshi shuhua shoucang shilüe 元代皇室書畫收藏史略. Taibei:
Guoli gugong bowuyuan, 1982. Pp. 93–95 and 239 (plate 103).
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 239 (A21–130).
Fu Shen 傅申. Yuandai huangshi shuhua shoucang shilüe 元代皇室書畫收藏史略. Taibei:
Guoli gugong bowuyuan, 1982. Pp. 93–95 and 239 (plate 103).
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 239 (A21–130).
abstract
Formerly attributed to Cao Yuankuo (傳)曹元廓