File:元 佚名 倣趙孟頫 九歌圖 冊-Nine Songs MET DP375121.jpg

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Nine Songs - album, after Zhao Mengfu (MET, 1973.121.15a–p)

Summary

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Nine Songs 九歌圖   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Unknown
佚名

After Zhao Mengfu
倣趙孟頫
(1254–1322)
Title
Nine Songs
九歌圖
Description

The Metropolitan Museum of Art states:

The Nine Songs are lyrical, shamanistic incantations dedicated to nine classes of deities worshipped by the Chu people of south China during the first millennium B.C. The original text consists of eleven songs, ten of which are transcribed and illustrated here. The illustrations are preceded by a portrait of the poet Qu Yuan (343–277 B.C.), which is accompanied by an essay entitled "The Fisherman," recounting the poet's state of mind toward the end of his life.
Zhao Mengfu's paintings for the Nine Songs in the baimiao, or "white-drawing" style, are based on compositions by Li Gonglin (ca. 1041–1106) and were a primary source for later fourteenth-century paintings of this theme by Zhang Wu (active 1333–65) and others. Because the calligraphy in the album does not compare with the best of Zhao Mengfu's writing, it is probable that these leaves represent close, reliable copies of Zhao's important work, executed during the fourteenth century. One leaf, "The Lord of Clouds," is a later replacement (no earlier than the seventeenth century).
Date
  • The album is dated to the 14th century (?).
  • This specific album leaf (depicted in the image file) is a later replacement from no earlier than the 17th century.
  • The colophon inscribed on the right side of the leaf is undated. See also the "Inscriptions" field below.
Medium Album of eleven paintings; ink on paper
Dimensions 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Asian Art
Accession number
1973.121.15a–p
Credit line Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Fletcher Fund, 1973
Inscriptions

Chinese text, standard script:

浴蘭湯兮沐芳，　　華采衣兮若英。
靈蜷兮既留，　　 爛昭昭兮未央。
謇將憺兮壽宮， 與日月兮齊光。
龍駕兮帝服，　　　 聊翱翔遊兮周章。
靈皇皇兮既降，　　焱遠舉兮雲中。
覽冀州兮有餘，　　橫四海兮焉窮。
思夫君兮太息，　　極勞心兮忡忡。
右雲中君

English translation:

We have bathed in orchid water and washed our hair with perfumes,
And dressed ourselves like flowers in embroidered clothing.
The god has halted, swaying, above us,
Shining with a persistent radiance.
He is going to rest in the House of Life.
His brightness is like that of the sun and moon.
In his dragon chariot, dressed in imperial splendour,
Now he flies off to wander round the sky.
The god had just descended in bright majesty,
When off in a whirl he soared again, far into the clouds.
He looks down on Ji-zhou and the lands beyond it;
There is no place in the world that he does not pass over.
Thinking of that lord makes me sigh
And afflicts my heart with a grievous longing.
To the right is ‘The Lord within the Clouds’

Colophon by Zhang Daqian (張大千, 1899–1983), semi-cursive script, undated:

此一頁不知[脫漏一字]時失去，為何人補畫。以紙墨筆法辨之，當是明末清初人也。何
Notes

The album comprises:

  • Leaf A
    Leaf A
  • Leaf B Portrait of Qu Yuan 屈原像
    Leaf B
    Portrait of Qu Yuan
    屈原像
  • Leaf C The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky 東皇太一
    Leaf C
    The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky
    東皇太一
  • Leaf D The Lord within the Clouds 雲中君
    Leaf D
    The Lord within the Clouds
    雲中君
  • Leaf E The Goddess of the Xiang 湘君
    Leaf E
    The Goddess of the Xiang
    湘君
  • Leaf F The Lady of the Xiang 湘夫人
    Leaf F
    The Lady of the Xiang
    湘夫人
  • Leaf G The Greater Master of Fate 大司命
    Leaf G
    The Greater Master of Fate
    大司命
  • Leaf H The Lesser Master of Fate 少司命
    Leaf H
    The Lesser Master of Fate
    少司命
  • Leaf I The Lord of the East 東君
    Leaf I
    The Lord of the East
    東君
  • Leaf J The River Earl 河伯
    Leaf J
    The River Earl
    河伯
  • Leaf K The Mountain Spirit 山鬼
    Leaf K
    The Mountain Spirit
    山鬼
  • Leaf L Hymn to the Fallen 國殤
    Leaf L
    Hymn to the Fallen
    國殤
... and leaf M, N, O, and P (consisting of colophons of a later date), which are not uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40511

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