Lofty Scholar by a Window with Pines

Lofty Scholar by a Window with Pines

• Image Number: K2A001991N000000000PAA
• Dynasty: Yuan dynasty
• Category: Paintings
• Author: Wang Meng;王蒙
• Form: 軸
• Exhibition dimension: 107.4×32.6
• Description:
  This imperial poem is titled “Ding Chou’s Spring March”. It can be seen that it was a poem on the second southern tour in the 22nd year of Qianlong’s reign (1757). The second southern tour was originally scheduled to start after the Junggar rebellion was pacified, but it was delayed for another year due to the flood in Jiangsu. This painting was a tribute given by Liang Shizheng (1697-1763), a Ci minister who returned home from vacation at that time. The last lines of Emperor Qianlong’s poem inscription, “Yugong” and “Qianfu”, can be inferred that when he saw the hermit in the painting, who was leisurely and listened to the waterfall, he thought not of Liang Shizheng, who presented the painting, but of Shen Deqian, an old official (1673-1769). Although there is Wang Meng’s style in the painting, judging from the way the rocks are grouped and colored, it should be the work of the literary painters of the Ming Dynasty imitating Wang Meng’s style.