石渠寶笈三編(御書房),第七冊,頁3142&*故宮書畫錄(卷五),第三冊,頁487-488&*故宮書畫圖錄,第九冊,頁235-236&* 崔子忠(西元一六00-一六五二年),北平人。初名丹,字開予;更名後,字道母,號北海,又號青蚓。崇禎時順天諸生;甲申後入土室不出,卒餓死。善畫人物,與陳洪綬齊名。 倪雲林性好潔,庭中所植梧桐,常督童僕洗滌,後世遂有洗桐圖,相傳以為佳話。此幅綾本潔淨如新,人物用筆傳神,皆極雅秀。畫樹畫石,有圖案意味,蓋崔氏作畫,於其意象,故別有蹊徑也。 &*Ts’ui Tzu-chung was a native of Shantung who adopted Peking as his home. He was a highly learned and patriotic man. When the Ming court fell to the Manchus in 1644, Ts’ui secluded himself in a mud hut and chose to starve to death rather than to survive under the new regime. He excelled at painting figures, and his fame rivals that of his contemporary, Ch’en Hung-shou (1598-1652). A flourishing Wu-t’ung (firmiania) tree grew in the Yüan dynasty master Ni Tsan’s (1301-1374) garden. As Ni Tsan was devoted to cleanliness, it became Ni’s habit to accompany a servant to the garden to bathe the leaves of the Wu-t’ung tree. This ritual became the popular subject of many later paintings such as this one by Ts’ui Tzu-chung. The condition of the silk in this work is immaculately new. Ts’ui’s brush has captured a vital spirit in the figures in an extremely refined style. The rocks and trees have been exploited for their design qualities in a manner which has become a true signature of Ts’ui’s hand. &*1.〈明崔子忠雲林洗桐圖〉,收入國立故宮博物院編,《晚明變形主義畫家作品展》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1977年九月初版),頁414。