石渠寶笈三編(延春閣),第六冊,頁2679&*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁163&*姜泓,畫史無傳,生卒年籍貫均不詳,以畫風論,應當清朝的人。畫梅花,圈瓣、填粉、點蕊,一一出於寫實手法,精細整飾,極得老梅的情狀,惟因畫在金地,強光反映微損色度。&*Nothing is known of the life of Chiang Hung, for he is not recorded in the histories of painting. Judging from the style of his works, he must have lived during the Ch’ing Dynasty. His plum blossoms, with their outlined leaves delicately shaded with pink and the stamens dotted in, are extraordinarily true to life and capture the nature of old plum trees. The gold ground of the painting lends a special brightness to the colors.