SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)
LANDSCAPE OF YANHUA STREAM, WITH ACCOMPANYING POEM IN RUNNING STANDARD SCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY
Handscroll, ink or ink and colour on paper
31.5 x 361 cm. (12 1/3 x 142 in.)
Four seals of the artist on the painting: Qi Nan (twice), Shi Tian (twice)
Poem in running standard script calligraphy following the painting, signed: Shen Zhou
Date third month of jiwei year in the Hongzhi era (1499)
Three seals of the artist: Shen Shi Qi Nan, Bai Shi Weng, Zhu Shi Ting Twenty six collectors'seals, including:
Li Dongyang (1442-1516): Xi Ya Shen Ding, Li (twice)
Li Zhihai (19th century); Zhi Hai Xin Shang (twice), Zhi Hai Shen Ding Zhen Ji (twice), Zhou Lu Li Shi Zhen Cang (twice); Tang Lianggeng (19th century): Tang Shi Liang Geng Zhen Shang Shu Hua [illegible] Ji, Huai Qing Tang Tang Shi Shi Bao; Chen Guilin (1857-1948): Gu Qian Chen Shao Shi Shou Cang Ming Ji, Bao Yu Ke Shu Hua Ji; Chen Rentao (1906-1968): Jin Kui Bao Cang Chen Shi Ren Tao, Ren Tao, Jin Kui Shi Jing Jian Xi, Chen Ren Tao Zhen Cang Yin, Jin Kui Shi; Ma Jizuo (20th century): Ma Ji Zuo Yin (three times), Ma Ji Zuo Jian Shang Zhang; and Lin Cun Shen Ding; Ren Jing Lu (twice); and one illegible seal
LITERATURE:
Chen Guilin: Baoyuge Shuhualu, Vol. 1, pp.10-11 Lu Shihua: Wuyue suojian shuhualu Vol. 1 in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu, Shanghai, 1993, Vol. 8, p.1004 Chen Zhenghong, Shen Zhou Nianpu (Shen Zhou - A Chronological Journal), Fudan Daxue Chubanshe, 1993, pp.255-257
NOTE:
In the jiwei year of the Hongzhi era (1499), Shen Zhou travelled to Yixing and toured the area with his friend Wu Lun. They took a boat trip to Zhanggong Dong (Zhanggong Cave) and passed Yanhua Xi (Yanhua stream) en route. This scroll was painted to record the trip, as was another handscroll, Zhanggong Dong tu, now in an American private collection. (See Chen Zhenghong, ibid.)