Cheng Hsieh
(1693-1765) was a native of Hsing-hua, Kiangsu province. His style name was K'o-jou and his sobriquet was Pan-ch'iao. He was gifted in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and is counted as one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangchow. He excelled in painting orchids and bamboo in untrammeled brushstrokes which overwhelmed the current of the times, and he created a unique style in calligraphy by integrating chuan seal characters and li simplified seal characters in the cursive, semi-cursive and standard scripts. This work, perhaps from his late years, is a transcription of the poetry Man-chiang-hung by his master Lu Chen and is a masterpiece embodying the free and uninhibited spirit of Cheng Hsieh.
Related Painting and Calligraphy: No. C101 Man-chiang-hung in Semi-cursive Script
h'ing dynasty / hanging scroll / ink on paper / 109.7 X 48.3 cm
