Zhi and Xu's Pure Conversation 支許清言圖
Copie d’après Lan Ying 藍瑛 1643
Cartel
- Artiste
- Copie d’après Lan Ying
- Nom en chinois
- 藍瑛
- Date
- 1643
- Période
- Chine, dynastie des Ming (1368–1644)
- Format
- Rouleau suspendu (立軸)
- Technique
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 141 x 56 cm (55 1/2 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 246 x 80 cm (96 7/8 x 31 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1970.128
- Provenance
- Gift of Stephen O. K. Chen
Attribution telle que la formule The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Ce qu'en dit le musée
Lan Ying’s painting is a gift to his friend, the Chan monk Wuyun, in which he depicted two sages of the Six Dynasties period: the Buddhist monk Zhidun (314–366 CE), and the Daoist priest Xu Xun (265–420 CE). Meant to be understood as an analogy of the friendship between artist and monk, the painting also offered a retreat into the past, a year before the fall of the Ming dynasty. A professional painter born in Hangzhou, Lan Ying is traditionally considered a last representative of the Zhe school. Lan wrote poetic inscriptions and interacted with the literatus Chen Jiru (1558–1639).
Notice de The Cleveland Museum of Art, fiche de l'œuvre.
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This painting serves as an analogy of the friendship between artist and monk.
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Inscriptions et sceaux
六朝多奇人，寄隱玄與釋。/ 支遁許道士，情意合相適。/ 長松古巖下，高譚對終日。/ 大志擲流水，好句聯袂覓。/ 世事世之外，千秋我自識。 五雲禪師道古行潔，與世無涉。喜山水，喜文 墨。至老神逾王。余與方外交，遂作支許清言 圖，乞為開示。 蝶叟藍瑛癸未七月杪。
Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: The time of Six Dynasties was full of eccentrics./ They took refuge in Daoism or Buddhism./ Thus came [the pair of] Zhidun and the Daoist priest Xu [Xun]:/ Their sensibilities and ideals were fully in tune./ Under a tall pine and ancient cliff,/ They chatted away all day long. / Grand ambitions were cast away like the flowing stream/ In quest for linked poetic lines./ Practical affairs were outside of their concerns./ Thousands of autumns later, I come to realize the truth./ Regarding the Chan Master Wuyun, his way is ancient and his actions pure. He has not involved himself in worldly affairs. He loves landscape and also belles lettres. In his old age, his spirit exceeds that of a king. He and I share much in common, he being a priest and I a layman. Consequently, I painted this Zhi Xu qing yan tu, and hope that he would enlighten me. Diesou Lan Ying, in the end of the seventh month, [the year of] kuiwei [1643].
2 additional seals of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988)
Transcription et traduction : The Cleveland Museum of Art