《猫石图》卷，清，朱耷绘，纸本，水墨，纵34厘米，横218厘米。

　　画幅右上方署款“丙子夏日写八大山人。”钤“可得神仙”、“八大山人”（白文）印2方。幅上又钤“遥属”（朱文）、“禊堂”（白文）等。左右角钤鉴藏印“文心审定”（朱文）、“宝贤堂”（朱文）、“蒙泉书屋书画审定印”（白文）等7方。“丙子”为清康熙三十五年（1696年）

　　此图为朱耷71岁所作。全幅景致简洁，绘一只白猫蹲于石巅上拱背缩身，与山石浑然合成一体。它闭目养神，全然无心观赏四周荷花、兰花等俏丽的景致。作者显然运用了象征隐喻的手法，将客观的意象与主观的意识作了巧妙而含蓄的结合。他以心静如水的猫暗喻自己在清王朝统治下不闻不问，远离世俗的隐遁行为。图中荷叶及无名花草以墨气淋漓的泼墨法绘成，与白描勾勒，寥寥数笔的猫、石形成视觉上的黑白对比，不同色调的深浅变化，丰富了画面的空间层次，从而使全卷既充实又空灵。

 

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"Cat Stone Picture" Volume, Qing Dynasty, Zhu Wei Painting, Paper, Ink, 34 cm in length, 218 cm in transverse.

On the upper right of the picture, the signature "Eight Mountain People in summer written by C Zi". Jun "Available Immortals" and "Badashan Man" (Baiwen) are printed on two sides. There are also "remote subordinates" (Zhu Wen) and "Yutang" (Bai Wen) on the sheet. The left and right corner of Junjian Tibetan seal "Wenxin Verification" (Zhuwen), "Baoxiantang" (Zhuwen), "Mengquan Bookstore Calligraphy and Painting Verification Seal" (Baiwen) and other seven parties. "C Zi" is the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1696).

This picture is made by Zhu Jin at the age of 71. The whole scene is concise, drawing a white cat crouching on the top of the stone, hunched back, and integrated with the rocks. It closed its eyes and looked at the beautiful scenery of lotus, orchid and so on. Apparently, the author employs symbolic metaphor to combine objective images with subjective consciousness skillfully and implicitly. He used the calm cat as a metaphor for his seclusion under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. In the picture, lotus leaves and nameless flowers and plants are painted with ink-splashing method, which forms a visual black-and-white contrast with white sketches, fewer cats and stones. Variations in depth and shade of different tones enrich the spatial level of the picture, thus making the whole volume both full and empty.