Axis of Tang Yin’s Youren Yan Sitting

[Tang Yin Youren Yan Sitting Picture Axis]

The Youren Yan Sitting Picture Axis, Ming Dynasty, Tang Yin painting, paper version, ink brush, 120.3 cm vertical, 25.8 cm horizontal
The author wrote and understood: “Where a quiet swallow sits, there is a twill hanging on the high pavilion. What can I recite? Green mountains and white clouds. Tang Yin’s painting of Wu Men”. After that, the seal of “Tang Baihu” and “Tang Yin Private Seal” will be affixed
In the picture, the cloud peaks are ethereal, the ravines are covered with bamboos, and one person sits quietly in the water pavilion. There are books and tea sets beside them, which seems to be waiting. One person stands alone by the stream, overlooking the mountains. In the painting method, the tree and stone figures are mostly painted with dry brush, which is firm, subtle and meticulous, reflecting Tang Yin’s ability to express and convey the elegance and simplicity of literati painting by learning the “courtyard style” landscape technique from Zhou Chen in his early years
On the upper right of this picture is the inscription of Wang Shu, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, in December of the fifth year of Yongzheng’s reign (1727), describing the process of collecting this picture and giving it to the monk of Tingsong Temple in Huishan. On the border and the head of the package, Wu Hufan, a contemporary calligrapher, painter and appraiser, inscribed and recorded Zhonglin in the year of Gengyin (1950). In addition to recording what Wang Shu said, the article introduced the spread of other ancient famous paintings collected by Tingsong Nunnery in Huishan, such as Wang Fu’s “The Painting of Bamboo Furnace”, and sighed at the disaster of cultural relics at the time of turmoil.