Chen Mei was a court painter of the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, and his paintings were not widely circulated but very delicate and delicate, which shows the high level of his painting skills. Hu Jing's "Records of Paintings of the National Dynasty", Zhang Geng's "Records of Paintings of the National Dynasty", the Anon. "Reading The Compendium of Paintings", and Feng Jinbo's "Paintings of the National Dynasty" and other books have recorded him.
"Picture Catalogue of the National Dynasty Courtyard" Online Pictures
According to the records, Chen Ming was good at painting landscapes, pavilions, and figures, the painting style was delicate, the works were decorative, and the pavilion houses he made were "referred to the Western Law", and the albums he painted were particularly trivial and very eye-consuming, so later Chen Mei "had two eyes seriously injured" and had to leave the court.
Qing Chen Mei "Character Pictures" Volume (Part 1) Silk Color Each page length 37 cm Width 31.8 cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Most of the surviving works of the painter Chen Mingshi are collected in the palace, and a small number of paintings in the palace are scattered in the society, and in recent years they have occasionally appeared in the auction market. In addition, chen's works after leaving the palace are mostly found in folk collections. Almost all of Chen Mei's works in the palace are very meticulous, rich in color and highly decorative.
Qing Chen Mei "Landscape Pavilion Map" volume (five of the twelve pages) Silk colored By the Palace Museum
Qing Chen Mei "Landscape Pavilion Map" volume (five of the twelve pages) Silk colored By the Palace Museum
The "Picture Catalogue of the National Dynasty Courtyard" records:
"Stone Canal" Bibliography V (Inner Pen IV, see below): A volume of "Cultivation and Weaving Diagram". Forty-six, first to twenty-third ploughing maps. First, soaking seeds, second, ploughing, three, rake, four, rake, five, lu qiao, six, cloth seedlings, seven, the first seedlings. VIII. Shade, Nine, Plucking Seedlings, Ten, Planting Seedlings, Eleven, Yun, Twelve, Two, Thirteen, Three, Fourteen, Irrigation, Fifteen, Harvest, Sixteen, Debut, Seventeen, Holding Spikes, Eighteen, Tong, Nineteen, Scoops, Twenty, Gui, Twenty-one, Tu Yang, Twenty-two, Into the Warehouse, Twenty-Three, Sacrifice to the Gods. Twenty-fourth to forty-sixth weaving drawings. One, bath silkworm, two, two sleep, three, three sleep, four, big up, five, catch the achievement, six, divide the foil, seven, pick mulberry, eight, upper cluster, nine, hot foil, ten, lower cluster, eleven, choose cocoon, twelve, cellar cocoon, thirteen, practice silk, fourteen, silkworm moth, fifteen, thanksgiving, sixteen, silk, seventeen, meridian, eighteen, latitude, nineteen, weaving, twenty, dyeing, twenty-one, Panhua, twenty-two, Zhai, twenty-three, garment.
Qianlong looked forward to the summer and April of the fourth year. The imperial pen is divided into titles and books, and the royal pen prefaces the clouds: "Emperor Zuren of the past, who tasted the silkworm deeds of the peasants, drew twenty-three paintings each, which were engraved in the order of poetry to show the descendants of their subjects." To the rare and admiring, and the long and little know the law, the mouth chants the heart, as the preface says, the cold of the weaver girl, the pain of the farmer who eats millet, and the taste of the farmer, he does not taste the three times and cannot be himself. ...... But my emperor's ancestors came to the throne for sixty years, and the government was deeply benevolent, and they were reduced to the four seas, and they were all heavy on agriculture and sang, and they were full of diligence and compassion for the people's hidden hearts. Because of the order to paint the previous picture, each book was written on the top, but the words were shallow, not enough to continue the profundity of the holy system, and the day and night, almost did not forget the original ambition, and the emperor and ancestors were diligent in sympathizing with the people's hidden solid government, and they did not dare to slacken off. ”
Qing Chen Mei "Evening Crow Returns to the Forest" Axis Ink on Paper Light Color Length 134 cm Width 62 cm Private collection
Sun Hu, Dai Zhengtai, Ding Guanpeng, Chen Shan, Chen Mei, Dai Hong, Wu Zhang, and Zhang Weibang co-authored eight volumes of "Shou Intention". Twelve paintings in each volume, ten paintings in the fourth volume, first, Lou Ge, signed the title "Shangyuan Changchun", the paragraph "Chensun Hugong Painting"; second, the fruit tree, signed the title "Shanglin Xingshuang", the paragraph "Chen Dai Zhengtai Gong Painting"; third, the characters, signed the title "Shoubi Immortal", the paragraph "Chen Ding GuanPeng Gong Painting"; fourth, landscape, signed the title "Shoushan Fuhai", the paragraph "Chen Chen Shanggong Painting"; fifth, the characters, signed the title "Qunxian Xianshou", the paragraph "Chen Chen Ming Gong Painting"; sixth, the feathered flowers, signed the title "Shou Ling Wannian", the section "Chen Dai Hong Gong Painting"; 7, flowers, signed the title "Thousand Days of Changchun" ", paragraph "Chen Wu Zhanggong painting"; viii, flower bat, signed "Hong Fu Qi Tian", paragraph "Chen Zhang for Bang Gong painting". Chen Shan, Daxingren, Gongshanshui figure, Kangxi Jian served in the inner court; Wu Zhang, zi Hantian, Lou County, good flowers and birds. Jin Kun, Chen Ming, Sun Hu, Ding Guanpeng, and Cheng Zhidao co-painted a volume of Qingfeng Tu. Section "Qingfeng Tu, Qianlong Five Years Jiaping Moon, Chen Jinkun, Chen Ming, Sun Hu, Ding Guanpeng, Cheng Zhidao, Wu Gui Feng Shu Gong Painting", Qianlong Xin Youyu May Imperial Inscription, "Chen Liang Shi Zheng Jing Shu". Cheng Zhidao, Zi Youchuan, Wu County Zhusheng, Gong Shan Shui.
Qing Chen Ming "Wan Fu Lai Chao Tu" axis
Chen Mei, Sun Hu and Ding Guanpeng co-painted a volume of "Dantai ChunxiaoTu". Section "Chen Ming, Sun Hu, Ding Guanpeng Feng Shu Gong Painting", former water: Qianlong Jiazi Zhongchun Imperial Inscription, "Chen Bangyan Jingshu". Chen Mei, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong, and Cheng Zhidao co-painted a volume of "Qingming On the River Map". Paragraph "Qianlong First Year December 15 Feng Edict, Chen Ming, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong, Cheng Zhi Dao Gong Painting", Qianlong Nong Shu Chun March Imperial Inscription, Poem Notes: "The figure began in the sixth year of Yongzheng, became in the second year of Qianlong, chengguo mountain forest figures, each of them works their own art, also painted Lin Jia" Yun, "Chen Liang Shi Zheng Jing Shu"; front across the water: imperial title "Painting Yuan Yan Yao".
The content is compiled from: Nie Chongzheng The Life of the Court Painter Chen Ming and His Works, Forbidden City, February 2011, thanks to the author and the magazine for providing information, if there is any question private message contact