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作品简介
——钱谷(1508-1578年)，江苏长州人，字叔宝，自号磬室。少孤失学，及长游学文徵明门下，始得读书，并兼习绘事。山水、兰、竹俱能。 本幅绘锺馗执笏独步寒林，旧传锺馗本唐德宗时之武举魁首，因貌丑见斥，自刎身亡，德宗后悔莫及，封为驱魔大神。是后，锺馗辟鬼之说益趋流行，民间每于岁暮暨端午悬其像，以祛邪魅。钱谷此作，设色浅淡，别饶逸气，则又与民间图像相迳庭矣。
Ch’ien Ku (style name Shu-pao; sobriquet Ch’ing-shih was) a native of Wu County (present Soochow) in Kiangsu. Orphaned and uneducated, Ch’ien began to read and study painting only after he went to become a pupil of Wen Cheng-ming. Ch’ien excelled at painting landscapes, orchids, and bamboo. According to legend, Chung K’uei was the leading general under the T’ang dynasty emperor Te-tsung (r. 780-804). Te-tsung, however, once ridiculed Chung K’uei for his ugliness, for which the general slit his own throat and committed suicide. Regretting his irrevocable act, the emperor posthumously enfeoffed Chung K’uei as a demon-quelling deity. The story of Chung K’uei the Great Ghost-tamer later became extremely popular among the people, who hung up his image at mid-year and year’s end to keep away evil spirits. This intriguing, delicately colored potrayal of Chung K’uei by Ch’ien Ku differs from popular renditions of the god; here he walks alone in a wintry forest, holding a tablet.
作者款识
隆慶改元(一五六七年)冬十月。錢榖寫。
印記：錢氏叔寶。
題跋
周天球行楷書：有唐名進士。隸本終南籍。雙目烱如星。鬚髯奮如戟。浩氣淩斗牛。精誠貫金石。直節人所欽。英風鬼所惕。執笏步寒林。魑魅自辟易。萬曆癸卯冬日。周天球題。
印記：周氏公瑕。
技法
人物衣纹描法(粗细线条) 、写意。
收藏著录
石渠宝笈三编﹝乾清宫﹞，第二册，页571
故宫书画录﹝卷五﹞，第三册，页404
故宫书画图录，第八册，页103-104
