Landscape

Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (11 columns in semi-cursive script)

The sunset’s shimmering rays shift following the sail;
Receding mountain light sets off the pagoda.
As one looks up from the river,
The water continues to flow on its own.

A serene scene painted in the manner of Siweng [Dong Qichang, 1555–1636] in the early summer of the renzi year (1912) for the instruction of Lügu. Noted by Lu Hui.

[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. 111. Modified. The Romanization of Chinese characters has been changed from the Wade-Giles system to the pinyin system.]

夕照隨帆轉，山光襯塔低。
擧頭江上望，流水自東西。

壬子初夏倣思翁意寫空靈之景，以就履谷仁兄大雅之正。陸恢識。


Artist’s seals

Hui 恢
Lianfu 廉夫


Collector’s seal

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

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

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Painting: Selections from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection," February 2–September 25, 1988.