Chen Zhuo’s Altar of Heaven is a picture of riding, and the picture scroll of Yelu’s secluded habitat

[Chen Zhuo’s Riding Map of the Temple of Heaven, Yelu’s Dwelling Map]

“The Riding Map of the Temple of Heaven, Yelu’s Dwelling Map” volume, Qing Dynasty, Chen Zhuo’s painting, paper edition, color setting, 30.5 cm in the vertical, 147.5 cm in the horizontal and 154.3 cm in the horizontal
The picture of “Riding on the Temple of Heaven” has its own title: “Chen Zhuo’s painting.” It is stamped with “Chen Zhuo”. “The picture of secluded habitat at Yelu” is titled as “Ding Mao painted in the Dongshan Thatched Cottage in the middle of spring. Chen Zhuo.” The seal “neutral” is printed on one side. There are postscripts written by Wang Ji and Liu Yu on the tail paper. The collection is printed with six seals, including “Haiti Handmade Collection”, “Haiti Treasure Collection”, “Haiti Authentic Verification”, “Changping Zhu’s Uncle Liu and Father’s Collection of Gold, Stone, Calligraphy and Painting”, “Bi’s Family Collection”, and “Guxianglou Treasure Collection”
Chen Zhuo’s paintings of pavilions have two styles: cyan and light crimson. The former is used to depict the fairyland pavilions, and the latter is more realistic. This volume depicts the old capital of the previous dynasty. One shows the Temple of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty, and the other shows a bird’s eye view of Jinling City from the Qingliang Mountain. The subject matter of the painting expresses the painter’s yearning for his hometown. The whole picture organically combines the painting of pavilions with the shallow red landscape of literati, and the artistic conception is quiet and cold. The architectural image is basically hand-drawn, which is not only accurate and delicate, but also has the spirit of literati’s freehand brushwork, which shows the painter’s superb realistic ability. This painting is an empirical study of the original form of the Temple of Heaven architecture and the appearance of Jinling in the early Qing Dynasty.