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Chen Rong: Nine Dragons  wikidata:Q15592269 reasonator:Q15592269
Artist
Chen Rong
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Title
Nine Dragons
九龍圖
九龙图
Object type handscroll Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date Dated 1244
Medium Ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 46.8 x 1496.5 cm (18 7/16 x 589 3/16 in.)
Image: 46.2 x 958.4 cm (18 3/16 x 377 5/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Accession number
17.1697
Place of creation China during the Song dynasty
Object history 17th century, Geng Zhaozhong (b. 1640 - d. 1686), Shandong, China. 18th century, Emperor Qianlong (b. 1711 - d. 1799), Qing Dynasty; to Emperor Jiaqing (b. 1760 - d. 1820), Qing Dynasty; probably given by one of the later Qing emperors to Yixin, Prince Gong (b. 1833 - d. 1898) [see note 1]. 1917, Yamanaka and Co., New York; sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $25.000. (Accession Date: June 14, 1917) NOTES: [1] See Zhang Hongxing, "The Nineteenth-Century Provenance of the Admonitions Scroll: A Hypothesis," in Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, ed. S. McCausland (London, 2003), p. 278.
Credit line Francis Gardner Curtis Fund
Inscriptions
  • 「九龍圖作於甲辰之春此畫復歸於甥館仙李之家, 神物固有所屬耶 Edit this at Wikidata」
  • Seal: 「石渠寶笈」
  • 「御書房鑑藏寶」
  • 「三希堂精鑒壐」
  • 「宜子孫」
  • 「乾隆御覽之寶」
  • 「楚中寫鑿真龍窺, 金陵x 眼雙龍飛 諸梁羽化張亦去, 雌雄笈殺劉洞微 八軸呉龍不堪掛, 醉余吐出胸中畫 龍門三峡浪如山, 從臾漲天聲價大 飛龍出峡駕春江, 九河之勢不敢降 一龍天池戴赤木, 菌蠢猛省雲霧邦 鈞天竒女又遭謫, 雷公擘山天地黒 玉龍皎皎摩蒼崖, 蟠蜿似避陽陵客 鼾鼻睡起金蛇奔, 嶄然頭角當海門 摩牙厲爪攫明月, 天吳起舞摇天根 雲頭教子掣金鏁, 第五圖中龍最老 兩龍徧活黎與蒸, 馬鬃夜半天瓢倒 桃花浪煖透三層, 禹門岌嶪誰敢登 蒼髯綘鬛火燒尾, 十月霹靂隨飛騰 蜀侯髙卧南陽武, 貌出全形竒且古 神功収斂待時來, 天下蒼生望霖兩 所翁寫出九龍圖, 筆端妙處世所無 逺觀雲水似飛動, 即之疑是神所摹 宣城龍公生九子, 盡入老翁圖畫裏 阿誰為我屠雙牛, 一牛莫著金籠頭 九鹿之圖䟦於涪翁, 九馬之圖賛於坡老, 所翁之龍雖非鹿馬並然, 欲傚蘇黄二先生賛跡, 則余豈敢姑述以志嵗月」
  • 「玄雲潑墨號天風, 雲頭擲火驅雷公 元氣淋漓雨師急, 天地變化誰為雄 雨龍奮迅見光怪, 夭矯西行出天外 一龍起處山石摧, 摩盪餘聲隠磅磕 一龍不競羣龍趨, 搏取明月看隨珠 老龍居中最蒼古, 盤旋引子方自娯 一龍出水露頭角, 白浪如山映空作 一龍飛上蒼茫間, 傾倒天瓢振枯涸 最後一龍心獨閒, 回頭似欲歸潜淵 騰驤宛轉各異態, 匪龍安得知其全 洞㣲物化僧繇死, 千載神交所翁繼 觀龍不在鱗鬛精, 妙用應須論神氣 九陽數極變必通, 此物豈困緘縢中 但愁霹靂隨昏濛, 一旦飛去蒼旻空 至順二年孟春, 天師太元子書」
References
  • Nine dragons. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
  • Wu, T. (1997). Tales from the land of dragons: 1000 years of Chinese painting. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Page 197-200.
Source/Photographer Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
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