Landscape

Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (5 columns in standard script):

Jingxi Laoren [Huang Gongwang] is a consummate master at representing faint spring color. My painting has more the atmosphere of autumn than of spring. I have tried to borrow Jingxi’s brush to correct it, but the ink bowl has not been cleaned. I am afraid that my predecessor is not going to allow me [to borrow his brush]. Dedicated to Chunyuan. It is the seventh month of the yihai year (1815). [Signed] Xie Lansheng

[Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu with Jean Schmitt and Caron Smith in Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, ed., Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950, Volume I: Text, New York: Random House, 1986, p. 76. Modified. The Romanization of Chinese characters has been changed from the Wade-Giles system to the pinyin system.]

春色空濛，惟井西老人最善寫狀。予畫筆多秋氣，少春氣。此幅欲借井西筆，略改面目。而墨椀洗滌未淨，恐前人不我許也。春園大兄正之。弟謝蘭生，時乙亥七月。


Artist’s seals

Xie Lansheng yin 謝蘭生印
Lipu 理圃
Gengxiaxi Guan 耕霞溪舘


Collector’s seal

An Siyuan 安思遠 (Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, 1929–2014)
An Siyuan cang 安思遠藏

Robert H. Ellsworth Chinese, New York (until 1986; donated to MMA)

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