3“Fishing on Pine Stream” 1361
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
107.5 x 64 cm. (42 3/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
Artist’s inscription:
“’Fishing on Pine Stream.’ During the second day of the eighth lunar month of the twenty-first year of the Chih-cheng reign-era (1361), painted by Wang Meng, the Recluse of Yellow-crane Mountain.”
Artist’s seal:
Wang Meng chih yin
Collector’s seals:
Hua-hua Chai; Ch’ing-sen-ko Shu-hua yin; Ho Shih Yuan-lang (seal of Ho Liang-chun, 1506-1573); Jung-chung Chen-ts’ang Shu-hua chih chang
Published:
I-shu Ts’ung-pien, Shanghai,
1908-10, vol. 12;
Harada Bizan: Nihon Genzai Shina Meiga Mokuroku, Tokyo, 1938, p. 97;
Oswald Siren: Chinese Painting, New York, 1956, volume 7, p. 137 (“A”);
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting, Berkeley, 1980, p. 339.
Recent provenance:
Obata Collection, Tokyo
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