Poetic Feeling in a Thatched Pavilion

1347

Wu Zhen

Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280–1354)

Chinese Art

Poetic Feeling in a Thatched Pavilion, 1347. Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280–1354). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 23.8 x 99.4 cm (9 3/8 x 39 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.259

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Wu Zhen
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: handscroll, ink on paper
Medium: handscroll, ink, paper
Dimensions: Image: 23.8 x 99.4 cm (9 3/8 x 39 1/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: 依村構草亭，端方意匠宏。林深禽鳥樂，塵遠竹松輕。泉石俱延賞，琴書悅性情。何當謝凡近，任適慰平生。至正七年丁亥冬十月，為元澤戲作草亭詩意。梅沙彌書 [印]楳華盦; 嘉興吳鎮仲圭書畫記 Translation: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: A thatched pavilion stands by the side of a hamlet./ Well conceived, the view from it is expansive./ The forest deepens just as the birds are joyful./ The bamboo and pines remain light, as the dusty world is far away./ Its spring and rocks are for our enjoyment./ The qin and books are to delight our spirit./ How should I bid farewell to those of the common place?/ May it suit our heart’s desire and bring solace to our life. In the tenth month of winter, in dinghai, the seventh year of Zhizheng [1347], did this Poetic Feeling in a Thatched Pavilion playfully for Yuanze. Written by Mei shami [Novice of the Plum Blossom]. [seals] Mei hua an; Jiaxing Wu Zhen zhong gui shu hua ji Inscription: 我愛梅花翁，巨老傳心印。脩此水墨缘，種種得蒼潤。樹石墮筆鋒，造化不能吝。而今橡林下，我願執掃汛。後學沈周 [印]启南 Translation: Colophon by Shen Zhou (1427-1509): I love the Old Man of the Plum-blossom,/ Who inherited the secrets of Juran from heart to heart./ In cultivating this "water and ink kinship"/ He was able to endow everything with a touch of aged mellowness./ Trees and rocks seem to fall from his brush [so effortlessly]/ That even nature itself could hardly deny their emergence./ So now, under the grove of the oak trees,/ I am willing to serve him with all humility. Shen Zhou, a later follower. [seal] Qinan Inscription: Colophon by Chen Rentao (1952): 予求梅道人畫二十年不可得。所見多膺鼎，即故宮所藏山水數軸都不可靠。傳世真迹，惟《漁父圖》、《嘉禾八景》與此《草亭詩意》而已。壬辰十月十四日余大病初愈，居家休養，研山師忽持此圖相贈。展卷披覽，頓覺精神沛振，如服僊藥。同日又得宋拓柳公權《神策軍紀聖德碑》，及群玉堂藏《真草書千(字)文》，皆海內孤本。一日得數寶，欣喜何如，書以志幸。陳仁濤識 [印]陳氏仁濤 Inscription: Colophon by Chen Rentao: 此圖作於至正七年丁亥，時年六十八，盖其晚年神品也。濤又識 [印]陳仁濤 Inscription: Title on frontispiece by Li Dongyang 李東陽 (1447-1516). Inscription: 33 additional seals: 1 seal of Li Chao-heng 李肇亨 (1592-1664)：檇李李肇亨書畫記; 9 seals of Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (1620-1691): 蒼巖子、蕉林、蕉林梁氏書畫之印、蕉林秘玩、蕉林書屋、蕉林玉立氏圖書、棠邨 (appears twice)、棠邨審定; 1 seal of Wang Yirong (1845-1900): 懿榮; 3 seal of Li Yanshan (1898-1961): 雙銕笛樓 (appears twice)、硯山心賞; 12 seals of Chen Rentao 陳仁濤（1906-1968）：陳氏仁濤、陳仁濤珍藏印、金匱寶藏·陳氏仁濤 (appears three times)、金匱秘笈、金匱室、金匱室精鑒璽 (appears twice)、金匱室主、金匱神品、仁濤奇緣; 1 seal: 崐溟居士; 1 seal: 林止在㭯生圖書印; 3 seals unidentified.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1963.259
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review (1963), The Colors of Ink, Looking East: Yuan Dynasty Paintings, Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques, Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions, Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting, Seize peintures de maîtres chinois: XIIe-XVIIIe siècles: Collection Chiang Er-Shih. Musée Cernushi, Paris, France (December 1959-January 1960)., Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968)., Looking East. The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (1976)., Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 6-June 27, 1977) and University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (September 20-November 27, 1977)., Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 22, 2003).
Rights Statement: CC0