石渠寶笈初編(養心殿),上冊,頁510&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁146&*故宮書畫圖錄,第二十四冊,頁234-237&* 陳書(西元一六六0至一七三六年),浙江秀水人,號上元弟子,上元老人。適海鹽錢綸光,後以長子錢陳群顯貴,誥封太淑人。 本幅畫天竹子、臘梅,成畫於康熙癸己(西元一七一三)年,時年五十三歲。 &*Plum Blossoms and Nandin Ch’en Shu (1660-1736) Ch’ing dynasty Ch’en Shu, a woman painter, was a native of Hsiu-shui, Chekiang. Her sobriquets were Shang-yüan ti-tzu and Shang-yüan lao-jen. Chen Shu excelled in painting flowers, birds, grasses and insects. She is also noted for her paintings of landscapes and figures. This painting was done in the 1713 when Ch’en Shu was 53 years old.