石渠寶笈初編(御書房),下冊,頁1094&*故宮書畫錄(卷二),第一冊,頁14&*董其昌(西元一五五五-一六三六年),江蘇華亭人。字玄宰,號思白。萬曆十七年進士,官至禮部尚書,諡文敏。天才雋逸,善書畫,富收藏,精鑑賞。行楷之妙,稱絕一代。 本幅未署年,由所鈐「青宮太保」之印,知為崇禎九年(一六三四),詔加太子太保致仕以後之作。此作採用原帖部分筆法,並含熟中帶生之趣;結字則變原帖之散亂為整密,不落顏楷之窠臼。&*Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, a native of Kiangsu, obtained his chin-shih degree in 1589 and went on to become Minister of Rites. He was a great talent and excelled at painting and calligraphy. Also a collector and outstanding connoisseur, his semi-standard script calligraphy was considered the best of the time. This work is undated, but the "Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent in the Ch'ing Palace' seal indicates it was done after 1634, the year Tung was given this position. The brushwork faithfully follows the original, but also has a rawness in its maturity. Tung altered the random structure of the characters in the original by executing them neatly but did not lose the pattern of Yen's standard script.