Wang Huiyanqi Kaoshitu Axis

[Wang Hui Yanqi Scholar Map Axis]

The Yanqi Scholar Map Axis, written by Wang Hui in the Qing Dynasty, is 122.7 cm in length and 31.5 cm in width
This picture is Wang Hui’s representative landscape painting in his prime. The picture is composed in a high and distant way. It depicts high rocks and deep ravines, long pines and flat lakes, ancient trees and trees among the cliffs, overgrown with weeds, mountain paths and mountain springs flowing out of the canyon and into the lake. The waterside pavilion of the mountain pavilion between the canyons is either partially hidden on the cliff or horizontally framed on the flowing spring. Sitting on one’s back in the pine shade on the flat slope near the shore, one seems to enjoy the elegant scenery of the lake and mountains. The structure of this painting is rigorous and the artistic conception is quiet. It is recorded that Tang Yin in the Ming Dynasty once had it. Although the painter did not imitate Tang Yin’s painting method, the mountains and stones he painted were chapped with the dry brush of the Yuan Dynasty, and the chopping method of the Song Dynasty was used. It was vigorous, beautiful and moist, and the dry and wet ink were combined. It was full of fun and charm. It seems that it is the result of the transformation after the artist’s early study of Tang Yin’s painting method, reflecting the typical style of landscape painting in this period
In the picture, Wang Hui knew that although the model year was not signed, Da Chongguang’s inscription and postscript were written in the year of Renzi, that is, the eleventh year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1672), and Wang Shigu was 41 years old. This picture should have been made at that time or earlier. At the top of this picture, Wang Hui wrote a seven-character poem: “The pleasure of living in the high rocks is quiet, and the white clouds are in the middle of the sky. The Milky Way falls to the thousands of peaks, and it grows with the pines in the thousands of valleys in autumn.”. It was learned from the three people’s poems that this painting was painted on a boat in Piling (today’s Wujin, Jiangsu Province). When the three people gathered here, they discussed painting for more than 40 days, and gave each other poems, calligraphy and paintings, which can be called a “grand event in the art world”. This picture is a gift from Wang Hui to Da Shi
There are seven other ways of identification, collection and printing in this picture: “Treasure of Emperor Qianlong”, “Treasure of Emperor Jiaqing”, “Treasure of Emperor Xuantong”, etc
The first edition of Shiqu Treasure Collection.