Zou Yigui’s Peach Blossom Axis

[Zou Yigui’s Peach Blossom Painting Axis]

The Peach Blossom Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Zou Yigui’s painting, paper version, color setting, 120.2 cm vertically and 58.9 cm horizontally
The inscription on this page reads: “Yao Island fairy flower, written in the reign of Emperor Qianlong Bingxu as the elder brother of Xingweng. Two know one laurel.” The seal of “one laurel” is printed by Bai Wenyin and “two know one laurel” is printed by Zhu Wenyin. There are three seals in the collection: “Han Lu Heart Appreciation”
“Bingxu” is the thirty-first year of Qianlong’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1766), when Zou Yigui was 79 years old. The picture shows a peach tree slanting into the picture against the background of rose. The strokes are light and delicate, the colors are elegant and beautiful, the flowers are beautiful and the leaves are soft, which fully shows the unique charm of the peach tree. The author does not deliberately seek for work and similarity, but only seeks for natural beauty, revealing the plain and elegant aesthetic interest, which not only shows the poetic flavor of spring and spring, peach blossom with smoke and fog, but also has the auspicious implication of rich and noble Changchun.