Landscape in the Styles of Huang Gongwang and Gao Kegong

Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (7 columns in semi-cursive script)

Although Dachi [Huang Gongwang 黃公望, 1269–1354] and Fangshan [Gao Kegong 高克恭, 1248–1310] differ in their artistic lineage, both were descended from Dong Yuan and Juran; one could speak of them being in the same family. When Dong Zongbo [Dong Qichang 董其昌, 1555–1636] painted he often combined their ideas. This painting was created in the same way. Done in haste during travel, however, it failed to capture their spiritual resonance. On a spring day of the yiyou year in the Kangxi reign era [1705] inscribed while traveling by boat to Yufeng. [Signed] Wang Yuanqi

大癡、房山門庭雖別，皆宗董、巨，所謂一家眷屬也。董宗伯作畫常兼用其意，此圖倣之，匆匆行役中，未能得其氣韻也。時康熙乙酉春日，題於玉峰道中舟次。 王原祁


Artist's seals

Yushu huatu liu yu ren kan 御書畫圖留與人看
Wang Yuanqi yin 王原祁印
Lutai 麓臺
Xilu houren 西廬後人


Colophon

He Yi 赫奕 (17th–18th c.), 6 columns in semi-cursive script, dated 1705; 2 seals:

昔余有倪高士小幅，麓臺司農見而愛之，以爲得骨得神，意在言外，謬許賞識，余甚愧之。今于玉叔齋頭見司農倣《六君子圖》，參以董、巨筆意，較余前筆不啻霄壤也，愧服愧服。乙酉仲冬赫奕識。 [印]：赫奕、澹士

Collectors' seals

Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 (1830–1904)
Yushan Weng Tonghe yin 虞山翁同龢印
Shuping huajian 叔平畫鑑

Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983)
Dafeng Tang zhencang yin 大風堂珍藏印
Niyan Lou 昵燕樓
Nan bei dong xi zhiyou xiangsui wu bieli 南北東西只有相隨無別離

Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (C.C. Wang, 1907–2003)
Jiqian xinshang 季遷心賞

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse , New York (until 1972; donated to MMA)

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–January 3, 1999.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C.Wang Family Collection," September 2, 1999–January 9, 2000.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "A Millennium of Chinese Painting: Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection," September 8, 2001–January 13, 2002.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)," February 2–August 18, 2002.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Chinese Painting, Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection," August 28, 2004–February 20, 2005.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Learning to Paint in Premodern China," February 18, 2023–January 7, 2024.

Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編 (Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings: vol. 1 American and Canadian collections) Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982, p. 13, cat. no. A1-055.