Dwelling in Seclusion in the Summer Mountains 夏山隱居圖

Item

Title

Dwelling in Seclusion in the Summer Mountains 夏山隱居圖

Description

Artist Inscription: (1) – painting, upper left
2 columns, standard script.
至正甲午暮春,吳興王蒙為仲方縣尹尊親作《夏山隱居》。
Last month of spring in the jiawu year of the Zhizheng reign period [March 25–April 23, 1354],
Wang Meng of Wuxing made Dwelling in Seclusion in the Summer Mountains for his honorable
kinsman, the district magistrate Zhongfang [unidentified].1
Signature: 王蒙
Wang Meng
Date: 至正甲午暮春
Last month of spring in the jiawu year of the Zhizheng reign period
[March 25–April 23, 1354]
Seals: none

Source

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1959.17

Creator

Wang Meng 王蒙

annotates

(none)

Abstract

10 Total
1. Jiang Shaoshu 姜紹書 (active 1630–after 1679) – (2)
Eryou『二酉』(oval relief) – bottom left
Jiang Shaoshu yin『姜紹書印』(square intaglio) – bottom left
2. Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983)2 – (4)
Cang zhi Daqian『藏之大千』(rectangle relief) – top right
Nanbei dongxi zhi you xiangsui wu bieli『南北東西只有相隨無別離』(square relief) – mid
right
Zhang Yuan『張爰』(square intaglio) – mid right
Daqian『大千』(square relief) – mid right
2. Unidentified – (4)
Tuqian zhenshang『徒乾眞賞』(square relief) – bottom right
Ti『替』(square relief) – bottom right
Sima xx『司馬□□』(square intaglio) – bottom left
Yiri『衣日』(square? relief) – bottom left

Rights Holder

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)

Identifier

F1959.17

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