石渠寶笈三編(乾清宮),第二冊,頁610-611&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁164&*李士達(生卒年不詳),江蘇吳縣人。號仰槐。萬曆二年(西元一五七四年)進士,後隱居不仕。畫人物、山水名世。 春夜桃花林下,高士雅集,或張素賦詩,或閒倚啜飲,旁有童子執壺燃薪,各具情態。似寫李白「春夜宴桃李園序」一文的情景,李士達曾論畫有「五美」云:「蒼、逸、奇、遠、韻。」此畫筆墨蒼深,人物造型有古拙之趣,足以印證他的畫論。款萬曆壬子為西元一六一二年。 本幅為「明人畫扇」冊第十開。 &*Figures in Forested Mountains Li Shih-ta (fl. late 16th-early 17th century) Ming Dynasty Li Shih-ta (sobriquet Yang-kuai) was a native of Wu-hsien, Kiangsu. After he received his chin-shih civil service examination degree in 1574, he became a hermit and did not take office. He was famous for his paintings of figures and landscapes. In this painting, a literary gathering of scholars is taking place under a canopy of peach blossoms on a spring evening. Some of them unroll sheets of paper to compose poetry, and others relax with refreshments. Off to the side are boy attendants warming a container over kindling. Everything in the painting has been rendered full of sentiment, as if the painting represents a scene described in Li Po’s (701-762) “Preface to ‘A Banquet in the Peach-Plum Garden on a Spring Evening.’ ” Li Shih-ta once discussed painting as having the “Five Beauties” of “Strength, Untrammeledness, Eccentricity, Distance, and Vibrancy.” The ink and brushwork in this painting are rich and deep, and the depiction of the figures has a sense of archaic clumsiness; they thus all sufficiently prove his theory of painting. The inscription on this work is dated to 1612.