Recluse Fishing by Autumn Trees

Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in standard script)

On the fifteenth of the fifth month in the gengyin year of the Zhizheng era [June 19, 1350] Sheng Mao, Zizhao, of Wutang [Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province] painted the Recluse Fishing by Autumn Tree for Zhuxi.

至正庚寅五月望日武塘盛懋子昭為竹溪作 《穐林漁隱》。

Artist's seals

Sheng Mao 盛懋
Zizhao 子昭

Label strip

Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983), 1 column in semi-cursive script, dated 1952; 1 seal:

盛子昭《秋林漁隱圖》，大風堂供養。壬辰二月重裝，大千居士題。 [印]： 張爰

Other inscriptions on the painting

1. Lin Yong 林鏞 (active 1360’s), 3 columns in standard script, undated; 1 seal:

萬里滄波杳靄中，平林落日映丹楓。
黃塵招馬長安道，誰似磯頭一鈞翁。
林鏞 [印]： 一印不詳

2. Wang Fu 王紱 (1362–1416), 5 columns in semi-cursive script, undated; 1 seal:

郡動日擾擾，何由止囂煩。
我心一以靜，庶或澄其源。
天高四山寂，落日孤雲騫。
至理無不在，朝市同丘園。
君應領斯妙，吾亦忘其言。
九龍山人王紱題。 [印]： 孟端

Collectors’ seals

Xie Xiceng 謝希曾 (mid-18th c.)
安山道人
希曾
謝氏鑑藏書畫

Ye Gongchuo 葉恭綽 (1881–1968)
葉恭綽譽虎印
第一希有

Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983)
大風堂
大千
大千大千

Gu Luofu 顧洛阜 (John M. Crawford, Jr., 1913–1988)
漢光閣主顧洛阜鑑藏中國古代書畫之章
顧洛阜
漢光閣

Illegible: 2

Marking:

John M. Crawford Jr. American, New York (until d. 1988; bequeathed to MMA)

London. Victoria and Albert Museum. "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Collection of John M. Crawford, Jr.," June 17, 1965–August 1, 1965.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Traditional Scholarly Values at the End of the Qing Dynasty: The Collection of Weng Tonghe (1830–1904)," June 30–January 3, 1999.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Four Seasons," January 28–August 13, 2006.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang," September 15, 2007–February 10, 2008.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change," August 21, 2010–January 9, 2011.

Guo Wei 郭威, ed. Dafeng Tang mingji 大風堂名蹟 (Masterpieces from the collection of the Dafeng Tang Studio) [Taipei?]: Yayun Tang, 1954, vol. 1, pl. 16.

Chō Dai-sen 張大千. Taifudo meiseki 大風堂名蹟 (Masterpieces from the collection of the Dafeng Tang Studio) Kyoto: Benrido, 1955–56, vol. 1, pl. 16.

Shih Shou-ch'ien, Maxwell K. Hearn, and Alfreda Murck. The John M. Crawford, Jr., Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Checklist. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 24, fig. 43.

Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 456, pl. 105.

Bian Yongyu 卞永譽. Shigu Tang shuhua huikao 式古堂書畫彙考 (Studies of calligraphy and painting from the Shigu Tang Studio). Preface dated 1682, juan 10 of painting section. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chi ptg. & calligr.) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 7, p. 27.

Gao Shiqi 高士奇. Jiangcun xiaoxia lu 江村銷夏錄 (Jiangcun’s notes from whiling away the summer). Preface dated 1693. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chinese painting and calligraphy) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 7, p. 1021.

Wu Sheng 吳升. Daguan lu 大觀錄 (Records from a grand view). Preface dated 1712, juan 11. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chinese painting and calligraphy) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 8, p. 542.