石渠寶笈三編(延春閣),第三冊,頁1393&*故宮書畫錄(卷五),第三冊,頁53-54&*故宮書畫圖錄,第一冊,頁215-216&*郭熙(約一0二0-一0九0前後),河南溫縣人,字淳夫,神宗朝御畫院藝學。工畫山水,師法李成,而能自放胸臆。另創影壁山水一種,即後世塑壁山水。又精繪畫理論,著有「林泉高致」一書,專論山水畫。郭熙山水深得李成真傳,小變其法,蟹爪樹枝與雲頭皴法是其特色。此幅林木寒肅,山頭峻厚,情景極佳。&*Kuo Hsi (style name; Shun-fu) came from Wen-hsien, Honan. He joined the Painting Academy in 1068 by command of the Emperor Shen-tsung. He was an excellent Painter of landscapes. Though he modelled his works on those of Li Ch'eng (916-967), his paintings express his own ideas and feelings. He founded the ying-pi style of landscape wall painting in which shadows on an irregular surface guide the painter. He was also the author of an important treatise on landscape painting, the Lin-ch'uan Kao-chih. Kuo Hsi's paintings are very close in style to those of Li Ch'eng. The special characteristics of his paintings were the use of crab-claw strokes to depict branches of trees and his texture strokes for clouds. This painting shows a bitterly cold forest set among soaring peaks. It is a masterpiece of the landscape genre.