Three Horses 三馬圖
Item
Title
Three Horses 三馬圖
Description
(none)
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1944.50
Creator
Unidentified artist
annotates
Outside Label: Anonymous (20th century)2
Mounted on outside backing. Ink on cream paper.
3 columns, running-standard.
Erroneous attribution to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254–1322)
元，趙孟頫，字子昂，号松雪道人，湖州人。官至翰林學士承旨，謚文敏。以書名
天下，其畫山水、花竹、人馬尤精妙。元史本傳。
Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan dynasty, with the courtesy name Zi’ang and sobriquet
Pinesnow Daoist, was a native of Huzhou [Wuxing, Zhejiang Province]. He reached the
official rank of Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts, and [was awarded] the
posthumous appellation Wenmin [Cultured and Intelligent]. He was famous throughout
the world for his calligraphy, while his paintings of landscape, flowers and bamboo, and
horses and grooms were especially marvelous and refined. — From his biography in the
History of the Yuan Dynasty.
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Mounted on outside backing. Ink on cream paper.
3 columns, running-standard.
Erroneous attribution to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254–1322)
元，趙孟頫，字子昂，号松雪道人，湖州人。官至翰林學士承旨，謚文敏。以書名
天下，其畫山水、花竹、人馬尤精妙。元史本傳。
Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan dynasty, with the courtesy name Zi’ang and sobriquet
Pinesnow Daoist, was a native of Huzhou [Wuxing, Zhejiang Province]. He reached the
official rank of Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts, and [was awarded] the
posthumous appellation Wenmin [Cultured and Intelligent]. He was famous throughout
the world for his calligraphy, while his paintings of landscape, flowers and bamboo, and
horses and grooms were especially marvelous and refined. — From his biography in the
History of the Yuan Dynasty.
3
Abstract
(none)
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1944.50
References
―Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes and Paintings‖. May 1–31, 1943. In Wellesley College
Bulletin, The Art Museum 3, no. 18 (May 1943): 8 and 17 (fig. 5).
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. P. 32.
Huggins, Mabel Irene. ―The Year of the Horse.‖ In Antiques Journal 21.7 (July 1966):
12–17, esp. 15 (top).
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, 240 (A21–137).
Bulletin, The Art Museum 3, no. 18 (May 1943): 8 and 17 (fig. 5).
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. P. 32.
Huggins, Mabel Irene. ―The Year of the Horse.‖ In Antiques Journal 21.7 (July 1966):
12–17, esp. 15 (top).
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, 240 (A21–137).