Street Scenes in Times of Peace 太平風會圖

Inscriptions

Frontispiece by Wu Yi 吳弈: 太平風會圖 吳弈 Signature Seal: 長州吳弈祠葉 Collectors’ Seals: 王颛菴書畫記, 常熟翁同龢所藏書畫金石印 Seals on Geshui (隔水):叔平畫鑑, 救虎閣主(翁同龢)，常熟翁玉甫珍藏. Inscriptions on the Painting: 朱玉君璧畫 Artist's Seal: 朱氏君璧. Collectors' Seal: 均齋秘笈，颛菴真賞, 尚古之文, 黄齑瓮 Signature at end of scroll: "Zhu Yu Junbi hua" (Painted by Zhu Yu, (stylename) Junbi (1293-1365)), with two seals Colophons by: 1. Gu Qian (1471-1534), dated 1530 (listing erroneous cyclical date: gengying year of Zhengde): describes the painting and its contents, attributes painting to Zhu Yu (Junbi), describes collection history, identifying current owner as Wu Chunfu. [note: year of gengying is 1530, Zhengde period 1506-1521] y.chen 2. Weng Tonghe (1830-1904): provides brief biographical information for Gu Qian and Wu Chunfu. 3. Wang Shideng (1535-1612), dated 1568: recounts the painting's transmission into the collection of Wu Chunfu, and identifies his grandson Maocheng as its current owner. 4. Qian Gu (1508-1572), dated 1569: describes the contents and execution of the scroll, the artistic biography of Zhu Yu, and references current ownership by (Wu) Maocheng. 5. Weng Tonghe (undated): states his ownership and claims authenticity of this work. 6. Weng Tonghe. dated 1877: catalogues the contents of the painting, recounts its recent provenance (1874) from Weng's fifth brother, describes Zhu Yu as a person of scholarly status, identifies the costumes in the painting as being Mongol in style, the painting as predating the Ming dynasty, and provides a historical overview of the preceding colophons, ending with the entreaty: "To posterity upon acquisition of this scroll: may this be regarded as a recorded tale of our native Wu!" Seals: In addition to seals for each of the colophonists, the painting also features a seal of the Qing collector Wang Chuan'an.