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內容簡介（英文） |
Ch'en Chu-chung was a Painting Academy attendant in the Chia-t'ai era who specialized in portraying figures and Mongolian horses. This picture depicts a stable man leading a dark-brown horse. The horse's chest is thick, and rump rounded. Slowly and steadily the horse moves forward, virile and valiant in its outlook, strong and composed in its manner. In the lower left part of the painting, there is an inscription. It reads: “Ch'en Chu-chung painted this in the spring of the second yea of the ?-ting era.” The character before “ting”, not wholly rubbed off, still can be recognized as “t'ai”, thus the term should be “T'ai-ting”. But we know that “T'ai-ting” was only used from1324 to 1327, as the name of the reign years of the Yuan emperor Tsin-tsung. However, Ch'en Chu-chung lived almost a century before that date. It seems, then, that the inscripion might have been written by a later copyist. The picture also bears a seal of Chao Meng-fu. It reads “Sung-hsueh-chai t'u-shu yin”. Strangely, though, it is not similar to any of the other seals of Chao Meng-fu. The painting is thus probably a copy.
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