Yuan Qian selected a bird gardenia picture local roll paper color 29.2x78.3cm American Freer Museum of Art collection This painting gardenia plant, a bird (apple) flower, a branch of the branch leaf light ink line hook

Yuan Qian selected to come to the bird gardenia figure local

Roll on paper, color 29.2x78.3cm

Collection of the Freer Museum of Art, USA

This painting paints a gardenia flower, a bird (apple) flower, a light ink line of branches and leaves, extremely exquisite workmanship, color Fu dyeing, color does not hide ink, color is clear and elegant, vivid shape. No author's signature, each flower is only a plutonium: Shunju Zhu Wen one. Zhao Mengfu at the end of the volume: Bird (now called apple) mast, the business is sufficient, Shunju Danqing is wonderful in Si Zhizhi, and other trivial people are also his disciples. Meng Fu. This painting is a fine selection of qian's sketches of flowers.

Qian Xuan (1239-1299), a famous painter in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, was jointly known as "Wuxing Eight Jun" together with Zhao Mengfu and others. The characters Shunju, Yutan, Xunfeng, Xiachuan Weng, alias Qingfu Old Man, Chuan Weng, Xi Lazy Weng, etc., were from Huzhou (present-day Wuxing, Zhejiang). Chinese Treasures Museum