故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁113&*故宮書畫圖錄,第十二冊,頁207-208&*錢維城(西元一七二0-一七七二年),江蘇武進人。字宗磐,號茶山。早年曾隨族祖母陳書(西元一六六0-一七三六年)學畫花卉,後則精研山水。 從本幅來看,錢維城畫花卉雖初學陳書,郤不似其偏向於寫意的風格,而是鄒一桂(西元一六八八-一七七二年)精細工麗的畫風,並加上郎世寧(西元一六八八-一七六六年)注重光影變化的技法。這應是當時宮廷中,畫家相互影響所致。&*Ch'ien Wei-ch'eng, a native of Wu-chin in Kiangsu, learned to paint flowers as a youth from his grandmother Ch'en Shu (1660-1736). He later came to focus on landscapes. This work shows that, although Ch'ien Wei-ch'eng learned flower painting early on from Ch'en Shu, he did not follow her tendency towards the “sketching-ideas' manner. Instead, this is more in the fine and delicate painting style of Tsou I-kuei (1688-1772) combined with an emphasis on shading techniques from the Italian artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766). Thus, this appears to be a work that was influenced by contemporary court styles. The painting of the three motifs are cut off arbitrarily at the bottom so as to focus on them.