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AFTER GUANXIU (PAINTING), 羅漢
ZHANG JINFANG (1747-1792)
(CALLIGRAPHY) 藏印:楊溪馬氏虛齋家藏、一印漫漶
Viewing Guanxiu's Paintings 書法
of Luohans at Guangxiao 釋文:貫休手寫一十六羅漢,其二乃
Monastery (calligraphy)
在南海訶子林。昔遊真跡未得見,
Luohan (painting)
念之三十五載縈人心。白頭重作嶺
18th century
Painting: two collectors' seals 南客,故人期我虞翻宅。僧廊亂後
Calligraphy: signed with three seals of 花木猶瓏璁,蕹菜春生滿池碧。循
the artist, two collectors' seals 廊轉入精廬深,一幅居然掛東壁。
Hanging scroll
Painting: ink and colour silk 古綃尚白石轉青,恰於石罅安疏
Calligraphy: ink on paper 櫺。一僧俯首力寫經,自準以下只半
Painting: 45⅝ in. x 18⅞ in.
(115.9 cm. x 47.8 cm.) 形。芬陀利花貝多葉,棕櫚筆管毛猩
Calligraphy: 14⅞ in. x 18⅞ in. 猩。不知金天之西何處得石硯,毋
(37.8 x 47.8 cm.)
乃昆吾玉切新出硎。一僧卻立侍巾
£8,000-12,000 US$11,000-16,000 瓶,靜如沙鷺翹涼汀。窗鐙不剪信明
€9,300-14,000
滅,桫欏樹底風泠泠。窗前千歲老
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Asia in the early to mid- 猿拱,雙臂平叉 兩肩聳。筍鞋桐帽木
20th century by Henry de Vilmorin 葉衣,想見霜濃寒到踵。精誠能令
Jnr. (1903-1961), born in Japan, the
grandson of the eponymous botanist 感金石,何況群生知怖恐。禪月師,
Henry de Vilmorin Snr. (1843-1899), and 流傳三絕,畫書詩。詩編巨岳集,書
thence by descent within the family.
有姜體遠本週之史籀秦相斯,未若
The verse inscribed by Zhang Jinfang 畫品更崛奇。即如此幅遠出意匠表,
reproduces an extended prose 或疑入定真容彷彿親見之。不然調
poem by early Qing scholar oficial 鉛殺粉能爾為。訶林僧,神物借汝
Zhu Yizun (1629-1709). The poem
describes a painting of Luohan 能世守。不見《宣和》舊譜遺跡久雲
by ninth-tenth century master 亡,豫章西山雲堂院中亦何有。我
Guanxiu, seen in the Guangxiao 欲賺汝去,莫飲我,缸面酒。我欲奪
monastery. The accompanying
painting illustrates the work which 汝歸,玉鴉叉,不在手。世間豈少珊
Zhu describes, including the monk 瑚鐵網珍珠船,自今貯之伏梁暗檻
engrossed in writing sutras, the 庶可全。
serene fgure to his left, and the aged
ape who stands in the courtyard, 款識:秀水朱彝尊題順流張錦芳補書。
hands clasped upon a broom. 鈐印:張錦芳印、粲夫、逃虛閣
藏印:馬虛齋珍藏、版門書屋
清中期 仿貫休 / 張錦芳 羅漢 來源:歐洲私人珍藏。Henry de
/ 書法 設色絹本 / 水墨紙本 Vilmorin 先生 (1903-1961) 於20世
立軸 紀初中期購自亞洲,家傳至今。
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