The Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight 陪月閒行圖
Du Jin 杜堇 fin des années 1400
Cartel
- Artiste
- Du Jin
- Nom en chinois
- 杜堇
- Date
- fin des années 1400
- Période
- Chine, dynastie des Ming (1368–1644)
- Format
- Rouleau suspendu (立軸)
- Technique
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 156.4 x 72.4 cm (61 9/16 x 28 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 286.4 x 99 cm (112 3/4 x 39 in.)
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1954.582
- Provenance
- John L. Severance Fund
Ce qu'en dit le musée
Lin Bu (967–1028), a Northern Song (960–1127) poet and hermit who lived at the West Lake in Hangzhou, was known for having plum trees for his female companions and cranes for his children. This hanging scroll depicts the poet walking in the moonlight and looking at the plum tree, a scene described in his most well-known poem on plum blossoms.Surviving works signed by Du Jin are rare and this painting is one of them. Here, the artist used lively brushwork to depict the plum tree and rocks, exemplified in varying dots and strokes, and sweeps in different shades of ink.
Notice de The Cleveland Museum of Art, fiche de l'œuvre.
Le saviez-vous ?
Lin Bu withdrew from prestigious government service and lived as a hermit by the West Lake in Hangzhou.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Inscriptions et sceaux
陪月閒行杖屨遲，半醒時節更相宜。 吟成疏影寒香句，為問梅花知不知。 檉居杜堇 [印]一書生
Artist's inscription, signature, and seal at upper left: Accompanying the moon, his walk slowed to a leisurely pace. This was all the more fitting as he was merely half awake. Having composed the line of sparse sound and chilled fragrance, ’Tis time to ask: Was the plum blossom aware of its own essence? Chengju, Du Jiin [seal] Yi shu sheng
1 seal of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963)
1 seal of C. C. Wang [Wang Jiqian] 王季遷 (1907–2003)
1 unidentified seal
Transcription et traduction : The Cleveland Museum of Art