石渠寶笈續編(乾清宮),第一冊,頁513&*故宮書畫錄(卷六),第四冊,頁211&*描寫鴨鳧一對棲息於洲渚邊,雄鳧綠頸花羽佇立,雌鳧相依啄食地面,畫家傳神地描繪出鳥禽的外型。岸上蘆荻幾株,紅蓼掩映其間,頗富山林野趣。 本幅與上海博物館所藏宋無款「雙鳧圖」極為相似,然構圖布局左右相反,兩者皆屬於北宋末南宋初流行的汀渚水鳥風格。毛益為南宋孝宗乾道年間(西元一一六五─一一七三年)的畫院待詔。 &*This work shows a pair of ducks at the edge of a sandy shoal. The male with its colorful plumage stands as the female looks down as if searching for food. The artist rendered the appearance of the birds quite faithfully. The reeds on the shore and the scattered clumps of pink knotweed make this scene even more rustic. This work is quite similar to Pair of Ducks, an anonymous Sung painting in the Shanghai Museum-except that the composition is reversed. Both belong to the waterfowl-and-shoals theme popular in the late Northern and early Southern Sung. The original title gives the artist as Mao I, a Painter-in-Attendance under the Southern Sung emperor Hsiao-tsung. This is the 11th leaf from the album "Collected Sung and Yüan Paintings".