石渠寶笈初編(御書房),下冊,頁1070&故宮書畫錄(卷四),第二冊,頁266&故宮書畫圖錄,第二十冊,頁205-208& Wu Li, style name Yü-shan, sobriquet Mo-ching tao-jen, was a native of Ch’ang-shou, Kiangsu. He and Wang Hui were both students of Wang Chien and Wang Shih-min. These four are often grouped with Wang Yüan-ch’i and Yün Shou-p’ing as the “Six Masters of the Early Ch’ing” or as “The Four Wangs, Wu, and Yün.” After 1679, however, Wu Li converted to Christianity and later entered the Jesuit order. He was ordained in Macao in 1688 and devoted the rest of his life to missionary activities in Nanking and Shanghai. Wu Li’s landscape style was based on a careful study and thorough understanding of the early masters. He was particularly skilled at the archaic “blue and green” style of landscape. In this genre, he approached the achievements of the Sung and Yüan masters. Although this handscroll was executed in bright, opaque pigments of blue, green, red, and white, there is no sense of confusion or muddiness. This painter has created an exquisitely natural work filled with movement and spirit. This painting was executed when the painter was thirty-six years old. &吳歷,(西元一六三二至一七一八年),江蘇常熟人,字漁山,號墨井道人。擅長繪畫,與王翬同受業於王鑑、王時敏,畫名與王時敏、王鑑、王翬、王原祁、惲壽平相等,世稱「四王吳惲」。惟因壯年後,信奉基督虔誠,熱心傳教工作,疏於繪畫,所以作品流傳後來甚少。 此幅山水畫作於三十七歲(西元一六六八年),臨摹古畫功力極深,於青綠著色者尤有獨到之處,氣息頗近似宋元人作品,通卷皆用青綠紅白重色,而能不覺躁濁,於清虛靈動中妙造自然。 &吳歷(西元一六三二至一七一八年),江蘇常熟人,字漁山,號墨井道人。擅長繪畫,與王翬同受業於王時敏,畫名與清初四王及惲壽平相等,世稱「四王吳惲」。壯年後信奉天主,熱心傳教,疏於繪畫,作品流傳後來甚少。 此幅作於三十七歲(西元一六六八年),臨摹古畫功力極深,於青綠著色者尤為獨到,氣息頗近似宋元人,通卷皆用青綠紅白重色,而不覺躁濁,清虛靈動中妙造自然。 &Wu Li, native to Ch’ang-shu, Kiangsu, was along with Wang Hui a student of Wang Chien and Wang Shih-min. These four are often grouped among the “Six Early Ch’ing Masters.” In the prime of life Wu Li converted to Catholicism and devoted himself to missionary work, so few of his paintings survive. This work was done at the nominal age of 37 (1668), Wu’s style based on a careful study and understanding of early masters. He was quite skilled at the archaic “blue-and-green” landscape style, approaching the achievements of Sung and Yüan dynasty masters. Though this handscroll is done in bright, opaque colors of blue, green, red, and white, there is no confusion or muddiness. Wu created an exquisitely natural work filled with spirit and movement.