Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

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Fig. 3a—

b. Wu Ku-hsiang, Bidding Farewell, :IS!)2. Hanging' scroll in color. Purchase. I0Í) X M (140 X 56) cm. Inventory number: 70.1. Wu Ku-hsiang (1848-1003), t/.fi Ch'iu-nung, a native of Chiahsing (Chekiang), lived lalei' in Shanghai where he also painted for selling and became well-known liiere. As a painter of landscape he earlier followed the styles of Wen Chciig-iuing and Shen Chou, later developed Ins own. He was also a master in painting figures and flowers'. The painting, which is executed in color and ink on brownish drab silk, is mounted on a silk of similar material hut in lighter color. It shows a landscape with figures in the foreground. The background is made up of mountains drawn in blue and brown with plain washes without contours. At the foot of the mountains we can view a river. The foreground is dominated by two large old willows with twisted trunks which surface is textured with brushstrokes and dots. The drooping branches are covered with a multitude of dabs executed in detail in green and ink. I nder the trees stands a stone bridge with an old man at its near end who. wearing a patterned robe, holds a long twisted pole in bis left band. A young man, clad in blue tunic and trousers, and black boots, is just bowing before him, with his two hands folded together. At his feet are a bundle and an umbrella. Farther from them, leaning on one of lia

1 trunks, stands a young girl in blue and while garments with red decorations. We can see at the bottom of the painting the continuation of the riverbank with a luxuriously leaved tree, bushes and grasses textured with dots. The painting is executed delicately and in detail. At the upper right-hand we can read the inscription as follows: "Su Han-ch'en

2 has painted a picture of such kind. I made this painting after his style, without examining whether it resembles or not. Ch'iu-nung, Wu Ku-hsiang painted in the winter of the jen-chen year (1802)". It also hears two seals: "Wu Ku-hsiang yin" and "Ch'iupu lao-nung". The two seals at the lower righthand corner may he traced to the Ch'ing collector P'ei ( Ihing-fu lived during Kunug-hsii). One reads: "Po-ch ien (the collector's tzù) pao tz'u kuo yii