43-3/4 x 16-1/8 in. (image) 109-7/8 x 22-9/16 in. (mount)
Signed: Changzhou Shen Zhou Colophon by Zhou Ding
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly
Asian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
[Walter Hochstadter {1914-2007} (exchange for TR5552/1 Shen Zhou 4 seasons; value $400.)]; Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1960.
三梓圖
Shen Zhou's inscription reads:
Fan Gong's hand planted objects of a thousand years,
Fitting for descendants' nurturing care.
Over and over leaves fall returning to the ages;
Again and again good spring rises from the earth.
Watch them as Ji Zha guarded the auspicious trees.
From Zhuangzi I know the beauty of their timber;
So for you I take the brush and paint their likeness-
Bright sun, the wind, the rain awe lesser plants.
[tr. R. Edwards]
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