Autumn Scenery of Zhao Boju’s Rivers and Mountains

[Zhao Boju’s Autumn Painting of Jiangshan]

The Autumn Painting of Jiangshan, Song Dynasty, Zhao Boju’s painting, silk edition, color setting, 55.6 cm vertically and 323.2 cm horizontally
This volume bears the seals of “Qianlong Imperial Treasure”, “Shiqu Treasure Collection”, and the seal of Liang Qingbiao. The tail paper has the inscription and postscript of Zhu Biao in the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375)
This figure is colored with cyan. In the painting, there are green mountains and clear water, temples and cottages, plank roads and bridges interspersed with them, and there are also pines and cypresses, lush forests and bamboos. The scenery is changing step by step, which is endless to ponder. The mountain stones are split and chapped with a small axe, and then heavily colored with green; The trees and buildings are delicately portrayed, and the scenery figures are delicately portrayed. The whole painting is grand in layout, rich in details, rich in color without losing elegance, fine in description without trivial, with the style of the painting academy of the Song Dynasty.