南宋 趙孟堅 行書梅竹詩譜 卷 Poems on Painting Plum Blossoms and Bamboo
Artist:
Zhao Mengjian (Chinese, 1199–before 1267)
Period:
Song dynasty (960–1279)
Date:
dated 1260
Culture:
China
Medium:
Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions:
Image: 13 3/8 in. × 11 ft. 7 in. (34 × 353.1 cm) Overall with mounting: 13 5/8 in. × 40 ft. 5 11/16 in. (34.6 × 1233.6 cm)
Classification:
Calligraphy
Credit Line:
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number:
1989.363.28
Not on view
An accomplished poet, collector, painter, and calligrapher and a member of the Song royal family, Zhao Mengjian was compared by his contemporaries to the famous scholar-connoisseur Mi Fu (1052–1107). Like Mi's, Zhao's writing does not derive from a single source but combines the best of many earlier models: the natural charm of the fourth-century Jin writers, the brush method and character structure of the seventh-century Tang masters, and the free expression of the eleventh-century Northern Song calligraphers.
This scroll, which transcribes Zhao's poems on plum and bamboo painting, is his best-known extant calligraphic work. Written for a young relative who was studying painting, the poems stress acute observation of nature and mastery of brush methods and conventions, as well as the importance of personal expression.
Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (68 columns in semi-cursive script)
John M. Crawford Jr. , New York (by 1971–d. 1988; bequeathed to MMA)
New York. China House Gallery. "Masterpieces of Song and Yuan Dynasty Calligraphy from the John M. Crawford Jr. Collection," October 21, 1981–January 31, 1982.
Lawrence. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. "Masterpieces of Song and Yuan Dynasty Calligraphy from the John M. Crawford Jr. Collection," March 14, 1982–May 2, 1982.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Traditional Scholarly Values at the End of the Qing Dynasty: The Collection of Weng Tonghe (1830–1904)," June 30, 1998–January 3, 1999.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection," September 15, 2000–January 7, 2001.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing," September 2, 2006–January 21, 2007.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection I," October 31, 2015–October 11, 2016.
Artist: Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307) Date: ca. 1295Medium: Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paperAccession: 1973.120.6On view in:Not on view
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