石渠寶笈三編﹝延春閣﹞,第四冊,頁1966&*故宮書畫錄﹝卷五﹞,第三冊,頁405&*故宮書畫圖錄,第八冊,頁119-120&* 錢穀,(西元一五○八至一五七二)長州人,字叔寶,自號磬室。少孤失學,迨壯,遊文衡山門下,始得書讀之。以其餘力,點染水墨,山水蘭竹兼妙。 高桐百尺,枝葉茂密,兩童子一據高枝,一在地上,運桶水洗之。巨石孔竅奇突,襯於其後。雲林坐椅上督視,油然微笑,狀至怡悅。另一童持羽扇為雲林拂暑,筆墨厚重之甚。 &* Ch’ien Ku was a native of Ch’ang-chou, Kiangsu. His style name was Shu-pao, and he called himself Ch’ing-shih. As he was an orphan, his schooling was neglected. Later, when he became a pupil of Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1559), he eagerly devoted himself to books, using only his spare time for painting. A firmiana (Wu-t’ung) tree of hundred feet height lifts its luxuriant growth of leaves. Two servant boys prepare to wash it; one up in the tree reaching down for a bucket of water passed up by the other. A great ornamental rock, pierced with holes, protrudes abruptly behind. This painting illustrates the well-known anecdote of the Yüan painter Ni Tsan (1301-1374) attending to the washing of his favorite garden trees. He sits observing the ritual with head slightly raised and a smile as if in amusement. Another servant stands with a feather fan, presumably ready to cool him in the summer heat. The brushwork is most dense and weighty.