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Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion 林堂詩思圖
by Ni Zan 倪瓚
Inscriptions
Inscription by the painter at the upper right： 林堂竹樹藹交陰 求友嚶鳴亦好音 絃誦諸生時列坐 邑中宓子但鳴琴 七月廿三日寫林堂詩思圖並詩以遺 又新茂才 瓚 In a forest pavilion, bamboo and trees give thickly overlapping shade, Seeking friends crying "ying," I too am fond of music. Reciting to strings, gathered scholars are from time to time arranged and seated, In his district, Master Fu had only to play the qin. On the twenty-fourth day fo the seventh month, I sketched [this] painting of "Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion," and wrote the poem in order to leave it behind for the multi-talented Youxin [possibly Tang Pan]. Zan. Collectors seals from left to right, top tobottom: 湖颿（帆）鑑賞，王氏季遷珍藏之印，胡鼻山，雨心館主，平安橋主，濟民珍秘，□硯樓藏，墨緣堂 ，王時敏印
Provenance
Chi-Chuan Wang (1907–2003; also C.C. Wang), New York and James H. Soong, San Francisco; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 9, 1996.
Publications
Osvald Sirén, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles 3 (London: Lund Humphries, 1955–58), pl. 99B. 王季遷, , 《故宮季刊》 1, no. 3 (1967), pl. 20. 鈴木敬, 《中國繪畫總合圖錄》 1 (東京: 東京大學出版會, 1982), I-91, pl. A 14-015. 《藝苑掇英》 38 (上海: 上海人民美術出版社於, 1988), 16. “Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1996,” Archives of Asian Art 50 (1997/1998), 101. Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia 29, no. 3 (1999): 48, fig. 3. Stephen Little, “Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, no. 1 (2004): 38–39. 小川裕充, 板倉聖哲編, 《中國繪畫總合圖錄. 三編》1 (東京 : 東京大學出版會, 2013), I-28, pl. A 3-097.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ni Zan 倪瓚 (Chinese, 1301–1374)
- Date
- Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1371
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 124 × 50.5 cm (48 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment; purchased with funds provided by of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1996.432
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