Wang Shishen Plum Blossom Chart Axis

[Wang Shishen’s Plum Blossom Painting Axis]

Plum Blossom Painting Axis, Qing Qianlong, Wang Shishen’s painting, paper version, ink pen, vertical 85cm, horizontal 32cm
Plum Blossom is highly valued by scholars of all ages for its cold-resistant character, so it is a favorite subject of scholars and painters. This picture shows several branches of plum blossom, which are firm and upright, and the trunk is coiled and vigorous. The painting method is mainly wielding, and rarely chapped. The brushwork is beautiful, and the ink color is elegant, giving people a feeling of refreshing. In “Yangzhou Eight Monsters”, many families are good at painting plum, and the plum flowers in their paintings have their own charm. Jin Nong once commented on Wang Shishen’s painting of plum blossom with “thousands of flowers and thousands of stamens, with cold fragrance in the tube, just like in the wind and snow of Baqiao”, which can be seen from the picture
Self title: “Wang Shishen, the younger brother of Qingshan Book House, wrote for Mr. Caichi in the early thirtieth of the year in the early spring of Jianwei (1739, the fourth year of Qianlong’s reign).”. Seal “Nest Forest” (white seal).
Identification seal: “Zou Yusheng examines the authentic work” (white text seal)