A Hostelry in the Mountains 山村歸騎圖
Item
Title
A Hostelry in the Mountains 山村歸騎圖
Description
Painting: Leaf a. Mounted on cardboard backing, inside right of fold. Square silk, with
artist signature in standard script, lower right. No artist seal.
.
Signature: 閻次于
Yan Ciyu
artist signature in standard script, lower right. No artist seal.
.
Signature: 閻次于
Yan Ciyu
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1935.10
Creator
Yan Ciyu 閻次于
annotates
Label slip: Possibly by Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
Mounted on cardboard backing, inside upper right
Three characters, standard script
閻次于
Yan Ciyu
Colophons: (1) – Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
Leaf b. Mounted on cardboard backing, inside left of fold.
Ink on sutra paper. Same shape and dimensions as painting.
Two columns; standard script.
閻次于畫法，與次平誠堪伯仲。信公。
In their styles of painting, Yan Ciyu and [Yan] Ciping can indeed be seen as older and younger
brothers. Xingong [Geng Zhaozhong].3
Signature: 信公
Xingong
Date: none
Seals: (2)
Geng Zhaozhong yin『耿昭忠印』(square relief) – below signature
Xingong fu『信公父』(square intaglio) – below signature
Mounted on cardboard backing, inside upper right
Three characters, standard script
閻次于
Yan Ciyu
Colophons: (1) – Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
Leaf b. Mounted on cardboard backing, inside left of fold.
Ink on sutra paper. Same shape and dimensions as painting.
Two columns; standard script.
閻次于畫法，與次平誠堪伯仲。信公。
In their styles of painting, Yan Ciyu and [Yan] Ciping can indeed be seen as older and younger
brothers. Xingong [Geng Zhaozhong].3
Signature: 信公
Xingong
Date: none
Seals: (2)
Geng Zhaozhong yin『耿昭忠印』(square relief) – below signature
Xingong fu『信公父』(square intaglio) – below signature
Abstract
13 Total
1. Mu Lin 沐璘 (1429–1458)4
– (1)
Qianningwang zizi sunsun yong bao zhi『黔寧王子子孫孫永保之』(square intaglio) –
painting upper left
2. An Guo 安國 (1481–1534)5
– (1)
Ming An Guo wan『明安國玩』(oval intaglio) – painting mid right
3. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠, (1640–1686) – (10) painting (7); mounting (1); facing leaf (2)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – painting, upper right
Zhenmi『珍祕』(square relief) – painting/backing, mid right
Chang yi zisun『長宜子孫』(square intaglio)
– painting/backing, mid right
Xingong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Gong『公』(square relief) – painting, lower left
Duwei Geng Xingong shuhua zhizhang『都尉耿信公書畫之章』(square intaglio) –
painting/backing, mid left
Dancheng『丹誠』(circle intaglio) – painting/backing, mid left
Xingong jianding zhencang『信公鑑定珍藏』(oval relief) – cardboard fold
Qinshutang『琴書堂』(square intaglio) – sutra paper/backing, mid left
Qianshan Geng Xingong shuhua zhi zhang『千山耿信公書畫之章』(square relief) –
sutra paper/backing, lower left
4. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (mid-late 17th cent.) – (1)
Huihou zhencang『會侯珍藏』(square intaglio) – painting lower right
1. Mu Lin 沐璘 (1429–1458)4
– (1)
Qianningwang zizi sunsun yong bao zhi『黔寧王子子孫孫永保之』(square intaglio) –
painting upper left
2. An Guo 安國 (1481–1534)5
– (1)
Ming An Guo wan『明安國玩』(oval intaglio) – painting mid right
3. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠, (1640–1686) – (10) painting (7); mounting (1); facing leaf (2)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – painting, upper right
Zhenmi『珍祕』(square relief) – painting/backing, mid right
Chang yi zisun『長宜子孫』(square intaglio)
– painting/backing, mid right
Xingong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Gong『公』(square relief) – painting, lower left
Duwei Geng Xingong shuhua zhizhang『都尉耿信公書畫之章』(square intaglio) –
painting/backing, mid left
Dancheng『丹誠』(circle intaglio) – painting/backing, mid left
Xingong jianding zhencang『信公鑑定珍藏』(oval relief) – cardboard fold
Qinshutang『琴書堂』(square intaglio) – sutra paper/backing, mid left
Qianshan Geng Xingong shuhua zhi zhang『千山耿信公書畫之章』(square relief) –
sutra paper/backing, lower left
4. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (mid-late 17th cent.) – (1)
Huihou zhencang『會侯珍藏』(square intaglio) – painting lower right
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1935.10
References
Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864–1949). Xuzhai minghua lu 虛齋名畫錄. Shanghai: Privately
published, 1909. 11:14b (leaf 15)
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鑒賞筆記. 13 vols. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2000. Vol. 4, part 1, 101.
The New Orient Society of America. Oriental Art in America: Recent Accessions in American
Museums. Chicago: The New Orient Society, 1937. Plate 19.
Sirén, Osvald (1879–1966). Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. 7 vols. New
York: The Ronald Press, 1956–58. Vol. 3, plate 265, and vol. 2, 103 (discussion). (Note:
mistakenly attributed to Yan Ciping)
Xie Zhiliu 謝稚柳 (1910–1997). Tang Wudai Song Yuan mingji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai:
Gudian wenxue chubanshe, 1957. Plate 82.
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I 中國美術：繪畫 1 (Chinese Art in Western Collections: Paintings 1). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973.
Color plate 11 and p. 222.
__________. Ri Tō, Ba En, Ka Kei 李唐、馬遠、夏圭 (Li Tang, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui). In
Suiboku bijutsu taikei 水墨美術大系. Vol. 2. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974. Pp. 87 (plate 50) and 164.
__________, ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄 (Comprehensive Illustrated
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(A21–117).
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79–92, esp. 86 and plate 4.
__________. ―The Artist and the Landscape: Changing Views of Nature in Chinese Painting.‖
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(Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Paintings). Taibei: Gugong bowuyuan, 1985. P. 51.
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International Colloquium on Chinese Art History, 1991, Proceedings: Painting and Calligraphy,
Part 1. Taibei: National Palace Museum, 1991. Pp. 45–95, esp. 49 and 75 (fig. 5).
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257–58 and fig. 110.
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zheqian shihua‖ 畫可以怨否？《瀟湘八景》與北宋謫遷詩畫 (The ―Eight Views of Hsiao-Hsiang‖ and the Northern Sung Culture of Exile). In Guoli Taiwan daxue meishushi yanjiu jikan
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Nansō, Kin 世界美術大全集 : 東洋遍第 6 卷，南宋、金. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2000. Pp. 106–
08 (fig. 25).
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chubanshe, 2008. Pp. 35 and 256 (no. 6).
published, 1909. 11:14b (leaf 15)
Zhang Heng 張珩 (1914–1963). Muyanzhai shuhua jianshang biji: huihua si, shang 木雁齋書畫
鑒賞筆記. 13 vols. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2000. Vol. 4, part 1, 101.
The New Orient Society of America. Oriental Art in America: Recent Accessions in American
Museums. Chicago: The New Orient Society, 1937. Plate 19.
Sirén, Osvald (1879–1966). Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. 7 vols. New
York: The Ronald Press, 1956–58. Vol. 3, plate 265, and vol. 2, 103 (discussion). (Note:
mistakenly attributed to Yan Ciping)
Xie Zhiliu 謝稚柳 (1910–1997). Tang Wudai Song Yuan mingji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai:
Gudian wenxue chubanshe, 1957. Plate 82.
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 10 and 21 (plate 5).
Freer Gallery of Art. Freer Gallery of Art, I: China. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1971. Plate 39 and p. 158.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), and Akiyama Terukazu 秋山光和, eds. Chūgoku bijutsu: kaiga
I 中國美術：繪畫 1 (Chinese Art in Western Collections: Paintings 1). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973.
Color plate 11 and p. 222.
__________. Ri Tō, Ba En, Ka Kei 李唐、馬遠、夏圭 (Li Tang, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui). In
Suiboku bijutsu taikei 水墨美術大系. Vol. 2. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974. Pp. 87 (plate 50) and 164.
__________, 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, 238
(A21–117).
__________. Chūgoku kaiga shi 中國繪畫史. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1984. Vol. 2, part
1, section 1, 156–60; and vol. 2, part 1, section 2, 114 (plate 88).
Edwards, Richard. ―The Yen Family and the Influence of Li T’ang.‖ In Ars Orientalis 10 (1975):
79–92, esp. 86 and plate 4.
__________. ―The Artist and the Landscape: Changing Views of Nature in Chinese Painting.‖
In Renditions (Spring 1976): 30–52, esp. plate 24.
Lawton, Thomas. ―Notes on Keng Chao-chung.‖ In Renditions 6 (Spring 1976): 144–51. Esp.
148, plate 90.
She Cheng 佘城, ed. Zhongguo shuhua 2: shanshui hua 中國書畫 2﹕山水畫. Taibei: Guangfu
shuju, 1981. Pp. 25–26.
Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院, eds. Haiwai yizhen: huihua 海外遺珍：繪畫
(Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Paintings). Taibei: Gugong bowuyuan, 1985. P. 51.
Barnhart, Richard. ―Shining Rivers: Eight Views of the Hsiao and Hsiang in Sung Painting.‖ In
International Colloquium on Chinese Art History, 1991, Proceedings: Painting and Calligraphy,
Part 1. Taibei: National Palace Museum, 1991. Pp. 45–95, esp. 49 and 75 (fig. 5).
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th century.
New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 1992. Pp.
257–58 and fig. 110.
Murck, Alfreda (Jiang Feide 姜斐德). ―Hua keyi yuan fou? Xiao-Xiang bajing yu Bei Song
zheqian shihua‖ 畫可以怨否？《瀟湘八景》與北宋謫遷詩畫 (The ―Eight Views of Hsiao-Hsiang‖ and the Northern Sung Culture of Exile). In Guoli Taiwan daxue meishushi yanjiu jikan
國立臺灣大學美術史研究集刊 4 (1997): 59–89, esp. 74 (fig. reference) and 86 (fig. 3).
Haiwai cang Zhongguo lidai minghua bianji weiyuanhui 海外藏中國歷代名畫編輯委員會, eds.
Haiwai cang Zhongguo lidai minghua 海外藏中國歷代名畫. 8 vols. Changsha: Hunan meishu
chubanshe, 1998. Vol. 3, 101–02 (no. 73).
Shimada Hidemasa 嶋田英誠. ―Nansō kyūtei no kaiga‖ 南宋宮廷の繪畫. In Shimada
Hidemasa and Nakazawa Fujio 中澤富士雄, eds. Sekai bijutsu daizenshū, Tōyō hen, dai 6 kan:
Nansō, Kin 世界美術大全集 : 東洋遍第 6 卷，南宋、金. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2000. Pp. 106–
08 (fig. 25).
Zhejiang daxue Zhongguo gudai shuhua yanjiu zhongxin 浙江大學中國古代書畫研究中心, eds.
Song hua quanji: di liu juan, di liu ce 宋畫全集: 第六卷，第六冊. Hangzhou: Zhejiang daxue
chubanshe, 2008. Pp. 35 and 256 (no. 6).