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Journeying
after Scripture on a White Horse
Ting
Yun-p'eng, Ming dynasty
Original:
Hanging-scroll, Ink and colours on paper, 130.9cm x 54.5cm
Signed
by the painter and dated "Autumn 1649". Two seals
Collector's
seals: eight Ch'ien-lung chien-ts'ang seals
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Ting
Yun-p'eng (fl. 1580-1621) was a native of Hsiu-ning, Anhui. His style-name
was Nan-yu and his sobriquet was Sheng-hua Chu-shih. He excelled at
painting Taoist and Buddhist figures, deriving his style from the T'ang
master Wu Tao-tzu and his technique of outline drawing from Li Kung-lin.
It is said that he painted lines so that they were like silken strands and
that he did not miss a single hair from the eye-lashes and eye-brows. This
painting depicts a story about Ts'ai Yin, who, in 65 A.D., set off at the
command of his emperor to bring back the Buddhist scriptures from India.
Two years later he returned, riding a white horse, accompanied by two
monks and bearing the scriptures. |