石渠寶笈三編(延春閣),第四冊,頁2017&*故宮書畫錄(卷五),第三冊,頁433&*故宮書畫圖錄,第九冊,頁127-128&* 關思一名九思,字仲通,號虛白,浙江烏程人,少時以繪事遊京師,名籍甚。善山水,嘗擬范寬、趙孟頫、黃公望、王蒙。流傳畫蹟在萬曆中至崇禎初年(一六00-三0)。同時人謂其「學博思深,自多靈異,每作一畫,援筆立就,而丘壑奇渺,聿出新裁,無不師古。」 此圖繪一鶴翔空,一鶴集松上,亭閣上一人倚石欄佇望,旁置樊籠。筆墨雅秀,設色清淡。東坡放鶴亭記云:山人張君有二鶴,甚馴而善飛,旦則放焉縱其所如,暮則歸。可與此圖合觀。 &* Kuan Ssu, a native of Wu-ch’eng, Chekiang, established a reputation for himself as a painter while a young man in the capital. He was a skilled landscape painter whose style was modelled after the earlier artists Fan K’uan, Chao Meng-fu, Huang Kung-wang and Wang Meng. Contemporaries marveled at his familiarity with earlier painting and his ability to use this knowledge to form a style that was entirely new. In this painting, one crane soars in the sky while the other perches atop a pine tree. The birds’ master watches by a stone balustrade, the cage by his side. The brushwork and application of colors are light and elegant. Su Shih (1036-1101) wrote “A Record of Releasing Cranes”, in which he said, “Mountain man Mr. Chang has two cranes which are very tame and like to fly. In the morning he releases them and they go where they please. In the evening they return.” Kuan Ssu’s painting may be an illustration of this story.