張祥凝摹王鑑山水 (清)

Landscape, autumn

1946

100 cm (h) x 45.5 cm (w) (image)

188 cm (h) x 55.5 cm (w) (scroll)

Hanging scroll painting

Attached card:
25. "Wong Jen". Landscape by Cheng Shang Ning

Ink and colour on paper

Title slip
題簽: 張祥凝摹王鑑山水 清
Translation: Zhang Xiangning Emulating Wang Jian's Landscape (Qing)

Inscription (top left)
題跋: 廉州太守筆意秀逸渾□ 丙戍上元撫其意 作齋居士張祥凝
Translation: The Official of Lianzhou's brush-idea was elegant and untrammelled.../[I] emulated his idea on the Upper Prime Festival of the year bingshu (1946) Zuozhai jushi Zhang Xiangning

Inscription on mounting:
裝裱題字: 清王鑑太倉人字圓照號湘碧善山水得董源巨然二家法為清代六家之一
Translation: Qing-dynasty Wang Jian, a native of Taicang, zi Yuanzhao, sobriquet Xiangbi, was skilled in landscapes. He acquired the methods of the two schools of Dong Yuan and Juran, and became one of the six masters of the Qing dynasty.

Artist's seal (top left)
張子 (朱文方印)
Transliteration: Zhangzi (relief)
羊凝 (白文方印)
Transliteration: Yangning (intaglio)

Republican period, Guangdong province

Painting, Chinese