Wang Zhenpeng Boya Drum and Qin Picture Volume

[Wang Zhenpeng Boya Drum and Qin Picture Volume]

Boya Drum and Qin Picture Volume, Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhenpeng’s work, silk, ink, 31.4 cm in length and 92 cm in width
This is a figure story painting. The story in the painting was first seen in Lu’s Spring and Autumn Annals. The picture shows the deep friendship between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi’s two intimate friends. There are five people in the picture. On the left is Boya. He has a beautiful face, a long beard, an open coat, and sits on the stone with both hands playing the piano. Opposite Boya was Ziqi, who also sat on the stone, dressed in robes, and bowed his head to listen. There were three attendants standing behind them. The author uses vivid and accurate pen and ink to depict the external characteristics and inner activities of the two main characters, the concentration of the player and the concentration of the listener, all of which can be seen on the silk. In order to set off the two main characters, the author also arranged three waiters, and used the different reactions of the secondary characters to express the friendship between Boya and Ziqi, who used the piano to convey their feelings and become “bosom friends”. This painting has reached a high level in depicting the psychological activities of the characters
In terms of painting techniques, the painter Wang Zhenpeng has well inherited the “line drawing” painting method of Li Gonglin in the Northern Song Dynasty. The lines are straight and powerful, flexible, continuous, and have changes in weight, thickness, urgency and frustration. Some of the clothes and hats in the painting are rendered in light ink, and the stones are slightly chapped. These rich and simple expressions make the picture varied and implicit, bright and not monotonous
The rightmost part of this figure is slightly incomplete. According to the seal on the painting, the picture was collected by the eldest princess of the State of Lu, Xiangge Laji (the sister of the Yuan Renzong) in the Yuan Dynasty, owned by the famous collector Liang Qingbiao in the early Qing Dynasty, and entered the Inner House during the Qianlong Period, and was recorded in the “Shiqu Treasure Collection – First Edition”.