Peach Blossom Spring
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.清 何焯 楷書桃花源記 軸 紙本
The most legible of all the script types, standard script developed in the third century and remains in use today. If semicursive and cursive scripts allow the calligrapher to display expressive brushwork, with standard script the calligrapher is able to showcase less flashy but equally important skills: compositional balance and orthodox brushwork. Here, the Qing dynasty court calligrapher He Zhuo does so in his transcription of the poem “Peach Blossom Spring” by Tao Yuanming (365–427). The structure of each character is spacious yet solid, while the brushwork is simultaneously strong and fluid.
The most legible of all the script types, standard script developed in the third century and remains in use today. If semicursive and cursive scripts allow the calligrapher to display expressive brushwork, with standard script the calligrapher is able to showcase less flashy but equally important skills: compositional balance and orthodox brushwork. Here, the Qing dynasty court calligrapher He Zhuo does so in his transcription of the poem “Peach Blossom Spring” by Tao Yuanming (365–427). The structure of each character is spacious yet solid, while the brushwork is simultaneously strong and fluid.
Artwork Details
- 清 何焯 楷書桃花源記 軸 紙本
- Title: Peach Blossom Spring
- Calligrapher: He Zhuo (Chinese, died 1722)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: Undated
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 23 × 14 1/2 in. (58.4 × 36.8 cm)
Overall with mounting: 80 1/2 × 21 3/8 in. (204.5 × 54.3 cm)
Overall with knobs: 80 1/2 × 25 1/8 in. (204.5 × 63.8 cm) - Classification: Calligraphy
- Credit Line: Lent by Guanyuan Shanzhuang Collection
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art