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Hongwu [Hung-wu] (d. 1811)

“After the Poetic Conception of Ni Zan” 1796

Folding fan, ink on paper
16.5 x 49.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Yaohua (“the beauty of jade”); youqing (“taking pleasure in purity”); youyou zhushi (“the recluse who is drunk and behind-the-times”)

Published:
Duoyunxuan cangpin, Shanghai, 2005, p. 339.

Inscription:
“Yunlin’s (Ni Zan’s) house is on the east, on top of a stone cliff,
there is a grove, the fine trees dark green;
To seek out the hermit he brews tea with spring water,
painting as though through mist and clouds he will emerge from the mountain hut.

On a fall day during the year 1796, I used the brush-methods of the ‘Shiziin’ picture and painted this after the poetic conception of the Yuan master Yaohua Daoren (Ni Zan).”

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