石渠寶笈續編(乾清宮),第二冊,頁798-799&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁131&*故宮書畫圖錄,第十四冊,頁103-104&* 艾啟蒙(一七0八-一七八0)字醒菴,波西米亞人。乾隆十(一七四五)年入如意館,與朗世寧、王致誠同為畫院供奉。善畫,尤工翎毛,賜三品銜。 樹下竿繩繫馬,為土爾扈特親王策伯克多爾濟進貢。清高宗云「貢至天閑,調習經歲,茲御以行闈,性果馴良,因錫之名」,乾隆癸巳(一七七三)艾啟蒙另有寶吉騮之作,故本幅成畫年代亦當在癸巳左右。 &* Ignace Sichelbart, who took the Chinese name Ai Ch’i-meng and the style name Hsing-an, was a Jesuit who came from Bohemia. In 1745, he entered the Ju-i-kuan section of the court and served as an artist, as did Giuseppe Castiglione and Jean-Denis Attiret before him. Sichelbart was especially skilled at painting animals and was awarded the title of Third Rank. This is a painting of the tribute horse Pao-chi-liu presented to the Ch’ing court by the Turbut prince Tsebekdorji. In the upper right corner of the painting is an inscription composed by the Ch’ien-lung enperor (r. 1736-1795) and written by the official Liang Kuo-chih. It states that after years of training in the imperial stable, the horse proved to be tractable and was thus named Pao-chi-liu (Precious Horse). Although this painting is undated, the record states that Sichelbart had completed another portrait of this horse in 1773. It may be assumed that this work was done at around that time. &*1.林柏亭、張華芝,〈清艾啟蒙畫寶吉騮圖〉,收入林柏亭、張華芝編,《畫馬名品特展圖錄》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1990年元月初版),頁104。