两件《春季牧牛图》刍议

On Two Paintings of Cattle Grazing in Spring

佚名《春季牧牛图》,与现藏于南京博物院的相传南宋阎次平所作的《四季牧牛图》卷第一段《春牧图》为典型的“双胞胎”。从宋代“重理法、重写实、重质趣、重人文精神”的时代绘画特征和各自的笔墨技法、气韵、造型等多方面对比分析,发现近三百年来一直相传为南宋画家阎次平所绘的《四季牧牛图》其实出自明代中期浙派画家之手,其中第一段《春牧图》系临摹自《春季牧牛图》,且技法及质趣明显高下有别。而佚名《春季牧牛图》的真正作者才是南宋画家阎次平。

The anonymous painting of Cattle Grazing in Spring is a typical “twin” with the first volume of the painting of Cattle Grazing in Spring in the Cattle Grazing in the Four Seasons by Yan Ciping, a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is now in the Nanjing Museum. From the comparative analysis of the painting characteristics of the Song Dynasty, emphasizing principles and methods, realism, quality and interests, and humanistic spirit, as well as their respective brush and ink techniques, charm, and modeling, it is found that the Cattle Grazing in the Four Seasons,whose painter, for nearly three hundred years, is said to be Yan Ciping in the Southern Song Dynasty, is actually the work of a painter of Zhejiang School in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, of which the first section of Painting of Spring Grazing is copied from Cattle Grazing in Spring, and the techniques and interests are obviously different. And the real author of the anonymous Cattle Grazing in Spring is Yan Ciping.