Yang Jin (1644-1728)


Herdboy and Buffaloes, cyclically dated to the Dingyou year corresponding to 1717 and of the periodInk and colour on silk, with calligraphic inscription and seals of the artist, framed and glazed. 140cm (55in) long x 70cm (27 1/2in) wide.
|丁酉年（1717年） 楊晉（1644-1728年） 牧童 設色紙本 鏡框 Provenance: a Dutch private collection來源： 荷蘭私人收藏Yang Jin 楊晉, styled Zi He (子鶴), pseudonym Xi Ting (西亭), was born in Changshu in the Jiangsu province. His paintings exhibit a meticulous quality that closely followed Orthodox masters of the early Qing such as the Four Wangs. The painting is inscribed:草茂豐林朝雨足，朅來牛背郊原綠。笛聲不解理宮商，信口吹成太平曲。丁酉長至，擬宋人畫法，虞山楊晉Which may be translated as:'Verdant grasses and lush forests full from the morning rain, arriving on oxen back to the green open country.The sound of the flute does not understand the formal tones of court, trust ones mouth to play and succeed at peace and tranquility. [Written in the] Dingchou year Summer Solstice, paralleling Song dynasty techniques of painting, Yang Jin of Yushan.' Compare with a similar hanging scroll painting by Yang Jin of buffalo on willow bank, also dated 1717, in the Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated by G.J.Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1970, p.225, no.433.