Swallows and Willow Tree 柳燕圖
Item
Title
Swallows and Willow Tree 柳燕圖
Description
Painting: Artist signature, lower right.6
Signature: 毛益
Mao Yi
Signature: 毛益
Mao Yi
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1944.51
Creator
Mao Yi 毛益
annotates
Outside label 1: Anonymous
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on brown paper slip
Two characters (one damaged), standard script
[王]詵
Wang Shen
Outside label 2: Anonymous (20th century)2
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on cream paper.
4 columns, running-standard script.
Erroneous attribution to Wang Shen 王詵 (ca. 1048–1103)
宋，王詵，字晉卿，太原人。能詩善畫，尚英宗女蜀國公主，為利州防禦使。山水
學李成，清潤可愛，又作著色山水，師唐李將軍。不古不今，自成一家。畫墨竹，
師文湖州。圖繪寶鑑。
Wang Shen of the Song dynasty, with the courtesy name Jinqing, was a native of Taiyuan
[Shanxi Province]. A capable poet and skilled painter, he married the Princess of Shu, a
daughter of Emperor Yingzong [reigned 1064–67], and was made the Defense
Commissioner of Lizhou. For landscape, he studied [the pure-ink style of] Li Cheng, and
[his works] were clean and fluid and quite lovely, but he also painted landscapes in color,
for which he took General Li of the Tang dynasty as his master.3 Neither antique nor
modern, he created a [landscape] style of his own. For painting bamboo in ink, he took
Wen [Tong] of Huzhou as his master.4 — [Quoted] from the Tuhui Baojian [Precious
Mirror of Painting].5
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on brown paper slip
Two characters (one damaged), standard script
[王]詵
Wang Shen
Outside label 2: Anonymous (20th century)2
Mounted on outside of cardboard. Ink on cream paper.
4 columns, running-standard script.
Erroneous attribution to Wang Shen 王詵 (ca. 1048–1103)
宋，王詵，字晉卿，太原人。能詩善畫，尚英宗女蜀國公主，為利州防禦使。山水
學李成，清潤可愛，又作著色山水，師唐李將軍。不古不今，自成一家。畫墨竹，
師文湖州。圖繪寶鑑。
Wang Shen of the Song dynasty, with the courtesy name Jinqing, was a native of Taiyuan
[Shanxi Province]. A capable poet and skilled painter, he married the Princess of Shu, a
daughter of Emperor Yingzong [reigned 1064–67], and was made the Defense
Commissioner of Lizhou. For landscape, he studied [the pure-ink style of] Li Cheng, and
[his works] were clean and fluid and quite lovely, but he also painted landscapes in color,
for which he took General Li of the Tang dynasty as his master.3 Neither antique nor
modern, he created a [landscape] style of his own. For painting bamboo in ink, he took
Wen [Tong] of Huzhou as his master.4 — [Quoted] from the Tuhui Baojian [Precious
Mirror of Painting].5
Abstract
2 Total
(2) – Unidentified
Shanqing『善慶』(square relief) – painting, upper left
Lai- X『賚□』(connected square relief) – painting, mid right
(2) – Unidentified
Shanqing『善慶』(square relief) – painting, upper left
Lai- X『賚□』(connected square relief) – painting, mid right
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1944.51
References
Lee, Sherman. Buddhist Art. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Pp. 33 and 58.
Yamato Bunka 大和文華 26 (June 1958): 64.
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Cover plate and p. 9.
Freer Gallery of Art. Freer Gallery of Art, China I. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Plate 40 and
p. 158.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, 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 (A21–126).
Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院, eds. Haiwai yizhen: huihua xu 海外遺珍：繪
畫續 (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Paintings 2). Taibei: Gugong bowuyuan,
1988. P. 41.
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, 171 (no. 123).
Yamato Bunka 大和文華 26 (June 1958): 64.
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Cover plate and p. 9.
Freer Gallery of Art. Freer Gallery of Art, China I. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Plate 40 and
p. 158.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, 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 (A21–126).
Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院, eds. Haiwai yizhen: huihua xu 海外遺珍：繪
畫續 (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Paintings 2). Taibei: Gugong bowuyuan,
1988. P. 41.
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, 171 (no. 123).