故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁51&*石渠寶笈續編(御書房),第四冊,頁2105&*故宮書畫圖錄,第二十一冊,頁243-246&*朱汝琳其人,除了知道他曾在康熙五十年(西元一七一一)畫了這件「草蟲卷」以外,並沒有留下任何的參考資料。 這件長卷,一共畫了七十隻草蟲,各箇栩栩如生,而且筆力細健,色彩雅潔,確實稱得上是難得的寫生佳作。卷末,畫家自己書寫的題記裡談到,是在和文友們聚會的時候,興致突發,才花費一個月的時間完成此畫,希望能藉它交換詩友的作品。由此看來,畫家也是一名雅士呢!&*Nothing is known about Chu Ju-lin, except that he did this work (his only surviving one) in 1711. This long handscroll includes representations of 70 insects (including butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, beetles, a mantis, a spider, a centipede, and even a cockroach), all of which appear in lifelike detail. The brushwork is strong yet fine and the coloring is elegant and pure, making this a rare masterpiece in the "sketching from life" tradition. At the end of the scroll, the artist wrote in his inscription that he began painting it one day at a gathering of literary friends and completed it a month later. Expressing his desire to exchange it for the poetry of a literary friend, it shows that the artist must have been a refined gentleman himself. &* 朱汝霖於康熙五十年作草蟲卷,即本幅,別無資料。工筆草蟲共七十尾。種種神肖,而筆力細健,傅彩雅馴。畫中之能品,作者生平,畫史均不載,觀其中識語,謂是文友集會之日,興來作此卷,歷時一月乃成,倘有能吟詠之者,願以此卷換詩,觀此則此君固亦甚雅也。&* Chu Ju-lin, painted this handscroll in 1711. It is the only painting of his still extant. There is no further information regarding his life available. The painting depicts seventy insects in fine detail; each insect is imbued with life. Chu’s use of the brush is delicate and vigorous and his application of color is elegant and light. The painting is in the capable categories. Chu Ju-lin is not recorded in the histories of Chinese painting. In the inscription of this handscroll, Chu states that he began this handscroll one day at a gathering of his literary friends and completed it a month later. Furthermore, ha would gladly offer this handscroll in exchange for poems. To infer from this inscription, Chu was indeed a man of refined taste. &*1.王耀庭,〈朱汝琳畫草蟲〉,收入國立故宮博物院編輯委員會編,《草蟲畫特展圖錄》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1986年初版),頁75。 2.劉芳如,〈中國古畫裡的草蟲世界 — 「草蟲天地」特展介紹(下)〉,《故宮文物月刊》,第221期(2001年8月),頁109。