Landscape 山水圖
Item
Title
Landscape 山水圖
Description
Artist inscription: Sheng Mou 盛懋 (ca. 1310–1360)1
Painting, upper left
Two characters, standard script..
Signature: 子昭
Zizhao
Seal: (1)
Sheng Mou『盛懋』(square intaglio) – below signature
Painting, upper left
Two characters, standard script..
Signature: 子昭
Zizhao
Seal: (1)
Sheng Mou『盛懋』(square intaglio) – below signature
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1911.161c
Creator
Sheng Mou 盛懋
annotates
Unidentified
Ink on orange-brown paper. Pasted on cardboard mounting, upper right
Four characters, standard script
元盛子昭
Sheng Zizhao [Sheng Mou] of the Yuan dynasty
Other inscription: Shanshui lang 山水郎 (Esquire of Mountains and Streams; unidentified)
Painting, upper right
3 columns, standard script. Poem (4x5).
何處看山色,匡廬九疊屏,吳髯新學畫,眉黛鏡中青。
山水郎。
Where should one behold the mountain colors?
Before the Ninefold Screen on Mount Kuanglu.
Curly-bearded Wu has newly studied painting,
Eyebrow black looks green within the mirror.
Esquire of Mountains and Streams
Signature: 山水郎
Shanshui lang (Esquire of Mountains and Streams)
Date: none
Seals: none
Ink on orange-brown paper. Pasted on cardboard mounting, upper right
Four characters, standard script
元盛子昭
Sheng Zizhao [Sheng Mou] of the Yuan dynasty
Other inscription: Shanshui lang 山水郎 (Esquire of Mountains and Streams; unidentified)
Painting, upper right
3 columns, standard script. Poem (4x5).
何處看山色,匡廬九疊屏,吳髯新學畫,眉黛鏡中青。
山水郎。
Where should one behold the mountain colors?
Before the Ninefold Screen on Mount Kuanglu.
Curly-bearded Wu has newly studied painting,
Eyebrow black looks green within the mirror.
Esquire of Mountains and Streams
Signature: 山水郎
Shanshui lang (Esquire of Mountains and Streams)
Date: none
Seals: none
Abstract
10 Total
1. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686) – (9)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – painting, upper right
[Zhen]mi『[珍]祕』(square relief; left half ) – painting, mid right
[Yi’er] zizun『[宜爾]子孫 』(square intaglio; left half) – painting, mid right
Gong『公』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Dancheng『丹誠』(round intaglio; right half) – painting, mid left
Duwei Geng [Xingong shuhua zhi zhang]『都尉耿[信公書畫之章]』(square intaglio; right
half) – painting, mid left
Xin’gong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – painting, lower left Qinshu[tang]『琴
書[堂]』(square intaglio; right half ) – sutra paper, left edge
Qianshan Geng [Xingong shuhua zhi zhang]『千山耿[信公書畫之章]』(square relief;
right half ) – sutra paper, left edge
2. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 17th–early 18th century) – (1)
Huihou zhencang『會侯珍藏』(square intaglio) – painting, bottom right
1. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686) – (9)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – painting, upper right
[Zhen]mi『[珍]祕』(square relief; left half ) – painting, mid right
[Yi’er] zizun『[宜爾]子孫 』(square intaglio; left half) – painting, mid right
Gong『公』(square relief) – painting, lower right
Dancheng『丹誠』(round intaglio; right half) – painting, mid left
Duwei Geng [Xingong shuhua zhi zhang]『都尉耿[信公書畫之章]』(square intaglio; right
half) – painting, mid left
Xin’gong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – painting, lower left Qinshu[tang]『琴
書[堂]』(square intaglio; right half ) – sutra paper, left edge
Qianshan Geng [Xingong shuhua zhi zhang]『千山耿[信公書畫之章]』(square relief;
right half ) – sutra paper, left edge
2. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 17th–early 18th century) – (1)
Huihou zhencang『會侯珍藏』(square intaglio) – painting, bottom right
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1911.161c
References
Gookin, Frederick William (1854–1936), comp. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Ancient
Chinese Paintings, Sculptures and Jade Objects: from the Collection Formed by Charles Lang
Freer and Given by Him to the Nation through the Smithsonian Institution, November 15 to
December 8, 1917. Chicago: The Art Institute, 1917. Pp. 37–38 (cat. no. 64).
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 12 and 30 (plate 14).
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, 245 (A21–150).
Wetzel, Sandra Jean. Sheng Mou: The Relationship Between Professional and Literati Painters in
Yuan-dynasty China. Ph.D. dissertation: University of Kansas, 1991. Rpt.: Ann Arbor, MI:
University Microfilms International, 1995. Pp. 180–82, fig. 31.
__________. “Sheng Mou: The Coalescence of Professional and Literati Painting in Late Yuan
China.” In Artibus Asiae 56.3–4 (1996): 263–89.
Chinese Paintings, Sculptures and Jade Objects: from the Collection Formed by Charles Lang
Freer and Given by Him to the Nation through the Smithsonian Institution, November 15 to
December 8, 1917. Chicago: The Art Institute, 1917. Pp. 37–38 (cat. no. 64).
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 12 and 30 (plate 14).
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, 245 (A21–150).
Wetzel, Sandra Jean. Sheng Mou: The Relationship Between Professional and Literati Painters in
Yuan-dynasty China. Ph.D. dissertation: University of Kansas, 1991. Rpt.: Ann Arbor, MI:
University Microfilms International, 1995. Pp. 180–82, fig. 31.
__________. “Sheng Mou: The Coalescence of Professional and Literati Painting in Late Yuan
China.” In Artibus Asiae 56.3–4 (1996): 263–89.