Five generations Dong Yuan Xi'an diagram Silk color 221.5 cm width 110 cm The old collection of the Forbidden City is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA
The authenticity of Dong Yuan's "Stream Bank Map" has caused a major international debate. This work was moved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Shanghai and unveiled at the "Han mo collection - the collection of Chinese five dynasties of Song and Yuan calligraphy and painting treasures in the United States", so the question of the authenticity of this work was raised again.
"Creekbank Map" before restoration
The mystery of the origin of "CreekBank Map"
Things go back to the 30s of the last century, the painter Xu Beihong suddenly claimed that he found the ancient painting "Creek Bank Map", soon after he transferred the painting to Zhang Daqian, netizen Susie Li Shu said more details in Weibo: ""The "Creek Bank Map" was first bought cheaply by Xu Beihong in the countryside of Guilin, he and Jiang Biwei divorced and lacked money, Zhang Daqian helped a lot, proposed to want this painting, and took Jinnong's "Wind and Rain Return to the Boat" for exchange. Thirty years after zhang daqian collected this work, it was transferred to wang Jiqian, an overseas collector. However, because this work has the background of the collection of two great painters, it has covered the authenticity of this picture with a mysterious color.
Creek bank map partial
At the end of the last century, Wang Jiqian, who was already ninety years old, held an international academic seminar on whether the map was the authentic work of Dong Yuan before purchasing this ancient painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Experts have proposed three possibilities:
One: This is Dong Yuan's original work, in addition to other works that claim to be Dong Yuan are not authentic;
Two: not necessarily Dong Yuan's works, but more likely imitations of the Northern Song Dynasty;
Three: This is Zhang Daqian's forgery. However, because of the long time and the difficulty of proof, the result is still suspenseful.
Nowadays, even if people say it conclusively, they are all like anecdotes because they cannot prove it, and an expert point of view mentioned in the Weibo of Yicai Xiang Liping makes us can't help but be amused: "A certain expert has examined the highly controversial "Xi'an Tu" that is being exhibited at the Bobo, he not only thinks that the "Xi'an Tu" is the authentic work of dong Yuan, a painter of the five generations, but also believes that the characters in the "Xi'an Tu" are all Southern Tang royal families, among them, the child being held is Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, such an interpretation opened my eyes ~ "
Calligraphy and painting appraiser Chen Peiqiu is definitely authentic
This work is regarded as the most important sound of Dong Yuan's authentic works from the famous calligrapher and painter and calligraphy expert Chen Peiqiu, who pointed out that the "Creek Bank Map" is Dong Yuan's only authentic work, while the "Xiaoxiang Tu", "Xia Shan Tu", "Xia Jing Shan Pass To Ferry Map" and so on, which are currently stored in other museums and are believed to be Dong Yuan's "Xiaoxiang Tu", "Xia Shan Tu", "Xia Jing Shan Pass To Ferry Map", etc. are not works of the tenth century - that is, it cannot be Dong Yuan's original works. The reason why it is mistaken for Dong Yuan's authentic handwriting is mainly caused by the Ming Dynasty painter Dong Qichang, Chen Peiqiu believes that Dong Qichang did this for two reasons, both of which are driven by interests, one of which is that Dong Qichang believes that "My Family Beiyuan" (Beiyuan is Dong Yuan) is his glory. He created the "Wujia (Dong family) Beiyuan Painting", established the theory of "Southern and Northern Sects", and erected and consolidated his status as an expert and theorist. Second, Dong Qichang wrote in the inscription "Xiaoxiang Diagram" that "Dong Yuan's Xiaoxiang Diagram is worth five hundred taels". Later, there are records to prove that the painting was sold fourfold by its descendants.
Chen Peiqiu pointed out in her thesis that the silk material of the "Xi'an Tu" is the material of the tenth century; the ink color of the "Houyuan Deputy Envoy Dong Yuan's Painting" is consistent with the color of the picture and penetrates into the silk bottom; the collection seal on the painting also proves that this painting has been circulated from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty; starting from the study of the epochality of the tenth and Song Dynasty paintings, it can also be proved that the composition pen of the "Xi'an Tu" is not a tenth-century painting. She concluded that from the paintings about Dong Yuan that can be seen so far, only the "Creek Bank Map" is in line with the era style of tenth-century painting. This means that the "Creek Bank Map" is the only authentic work of Dong Yuan that has been handed down at present.
About Dong Yuan's "Creek Bank Map"
Dong Yuan was a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Fifth Dynasty. "Stream Bank Map" shows the mountain life of the mountain hermit in a vertical composition: the valley between the two mountains, the stream meanders down, the pond bank has bamboo hedge huts, there are maids working in the backyard, there are shepherd boys riding cattle in front of the fence, there are farmers rushing on the path, a pavilion is stretched into the water, The coat sits on the railing, looks up, looks extremely leisurely, and his wife holds her children and plays with the servants, a plain but happy life scene.
In the lower left of this painting, there is the "Painting of Dong Yuan, Deputy Envoy of Beiyuan", the "Tianshui Zhao Clan" and "Ke Jiu Si Yin", and the Tibetan seals of zhang Daqian and Zhang Shanxiao.
Text and pictures come from the Internet