Wintry Trees and Sheep 寒林牧羊圖

Item

Title

Wintry Trees and Sheep 寒林牧羊圖

Description

(none)

Source

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1970.33

Creator

Unidentified artist

annotates

Outside label: Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940)
Mounted on back of panel.
1 column, running-standard script; plus 2 columns, smaller running-standard script
唐人《寒林牧羊圖》真蹟。營邱、河陽皆從此出,洵無上神品。雪堂珍藏,羅振玉題。
Wintry trees and sheep. Genuine work by an artist of the Tang dynasty [618–907]. Yingqiu [Li
Cheng] and Heyang [Guo Xi] emerged from [the style seen here];1 it is truly an incomparable
[painting] of the divine class. Treasured in the Xuetang collection and inscribed by Luo Zhenyu.
Signature: Luo Zhenyu
羅振玉
Date: none
Seals: (2)
Luo Zhenyu yin『羅振玉印』(square intaglio)
Luo Shuyan『羅叔言』(square intaglio)

Abstract

(none)

Rights Holder

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)

Identifier

F1970.33

References

Freer Gallery of Art. Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition. Washington, DC: Freer
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1971. Pp. 42-43.
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 25 and pp. 229-30
__________, 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, 252
(A21–231).
__________. Chūgoku kaigashi 中國繪畫史. Tokyo: Yoshikawa kobunsha, 1988. Vol. 2, part 2,
section 1, 213; and part 2, section. 2, 142 (plate 143).