COLLECTION NAME:
National Palace English
Record
Work ID:
M01E00247
Title:
Chanting in Idle Time
Creation Date:
Ming Dynasty
Start Year Date:
A.D.1368
End Year Date:
A.D.1644
Dynasty:
45 Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368~1644)
Creator:
Chen Hong-shou
Creation Place:
China
Measurements:
79.3 x 31.7 cm
Material:
Ink on paper
Form:
Li-zhou (hanging scroll)
Type:
Painting
Subject:
Figure
Repository:
The National Palace Museum, Taipei
Description:
In the baimiao [ink outline] technique, Chen has depicted a scholar wearing a flower in his cap. With his left hand, he grasps a walking stick, and with his right he appears in the gesture of tapping lightly. He has a free and easy mood, like the character of a lofty, easy-going poet. There is a seven-character line poem inscribed, "Why do we always write poems when going into the mountains?/Heaven gives birth to a type like myself, the eccentric mountain dweller/At times I also teach the mountain children to chant/Do you not think that the children are not as good as the courtesans?" In this painting, the flower in the scholar's cap seems to be a type of chrysanthemum. There is a good chance that the painting depicts the famous official Tao Yuanming (365-427) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Chen Hongshou liked to depict the life of this recluse scholar, as evidenced in his late works, Returning Home (1650) and Sixteen Scenes of Living in Seclusion (1651).
ImageV ID:
M01E00247AS001
Rights:
Lee & Lee Communications