Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 1, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 1
Magnolias

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 2, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 2
Peonies

Inscription in regular script by Wang Hui: Peonies are the most subject to vulgarization, and the most difficult to paint. Take for example the peony painting of recent artisans. They smear on greens and reds, and in spite of ten thousand blooms,
they will stick to a single form and gesture, rendering the subject utterly spirit or vitality. Only masters of the Northern Sung like Hsu Hsi, father and son, Chao Chang and Wang Yu painted creatively and provided innovation.
Their coloration was beautiful to the extreme, their spirit resonance palpable. Looking at this album by Nan-tien, exquisitely done in the "boneless manner (without ink outlines) and catching all natural transformations,
It is because they were able to transcend the confines of canonical dicta that they were called transmitters of the divine (life-force).
(I can say that) it not only surpasses the art of Ming masters of floral painting such as Chen (Shun) and Lu (Chih), but matches that of the great masters of the Northern Sung.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 3, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 3
Day Lilies

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 4, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 4
Autumn Flowers

Inscription by Wang Hui in regular script: Autumnal flowers and grasses. The brush-spirit is fine and exquisite. The only man after Chao Wen-min (Meng-fu).

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 5, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 5
Crab Apple (Pyrus spectabilis)

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 6, Yun Shouping (1633-1690)

Leaf 6
Narcissi

Inscription by Wang Hui in regular script: The narcissi by (the Southern Sung master) Chao Tzu-ku (Meng-chien) are pure, untrammeled and sublime in spirit consonance. In this copy by Nan-tien there is beauty to spare.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 7, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 7
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: I once saw the "Peach Blossom Fishing Boat" painted by Old Man Ou-po Chao Tzu-ang (Meng fu) where his coloration came entirely from the Southern Sung master Chao Po-chu.
By chance I copied it from memory in the studio of Fang-chung, in order to join its spirit.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 8, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 8
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: Spontaneously painted during night rains, before dawn mists had yet lifted. The Yuan master Kao Shang-shu (Ko-kung) once made a painting like this which was recently in my house, hence I copied it.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 9, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 9
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: In imitation of "Wintry Mists over the Ancient Stream" by Li Hsien-hsi (Cheng), on the 26th Day of the 10th Month of 1672. (by) Shih-ku, Wang Hui.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 10, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 10
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: Autumn Vapours Over the Red-leafed Forest in the manner of Fan Hua-yuan (Kuan)

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 11, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 11
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: For brush-method I have used that of Tsao Yun-hsi (Chih-po), in lace like the "Thatched Studio" by Lu Hung.

Album of Flowers and Landscapes, Leaf 12, Wang Hui (1632-1717)

Leaf 12
Landscape

Self-inscription in regular script: (In the manner of the Tang master Wang Wei) Yu-cheng's "Gathered Snow"

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