禹之鼎《王翚骑牛南还图》考略

On The Portrait of ’Wang Hui Returning to The South on a Cow’ Attributed to Yu Zhiding

世传清初著名画家王翚的肖像不止一幅,但真正能够反映其形神的作品,是与他相识多年、以肖像画称著的禹之鼎所绘《骑牛南还图》。本文通过叙述王翚请禹之鼎创作《骑牛南还图》与遍邀名流、友朋题诗的情况,阐释了像主和创作者各自的企望,同时,画家对像主还乡心情的体会深刻,也终令画作得以完美呈现。

Yu Zhiding’s ‘Wang Hui Returning to the South on a Cow’ in scroll is considered to be the only one that truely reflects Wang Hui’s nature and personality. By reviewing the process of Wang Hui asking Yu Zhiding to paint for him and asking his friends and celebrities for inscriptions, the thesis approaches to what both portrait figure Wang Hui and Creator Yu Zhiding intend to express through the image. The portrait is completed perfectly much owing to the creator’s better understanding the figure’s feeling of returning his native homeland.