Listening to the Wind in the Pines

Original: Hanging-scroll, Ink and colours on silk, 226.6 cm X 110.3 cm

Signed by the painter and with the title inscribed by the Emperor Li-tsung in 1246. Two seals

Collector's seals: Chi-hsi-tien pao-hsi, Shang-ch'iu Sung-lo fan-ting chen-chi, five Ch'ien-lungseals, and others

　Ma Lin (fl. 1250) came from Ho-chung in Shan-hsi. He was the son of Ma Yuan. He served as Painter-in-Attendance to the courts of Kuang-tsung and Li-tsung at the turn of the twelfth century. His paintings of landscapes, figures, and birds and flowers continued his family's artistic traditions, although falling somewhat short of his father's consummate skill. It has been said that Ma Yuan used to sign his own paintings with his son's name which accounted for Ma Lin's high reputation.