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《东方先生画赞碑》卷，明，董其昌书，纸本，楷书，纵24.5厘米，横558.6厘米。
卷末自识：“颜尚书此碑，苏学士书所自出。世谓苏学徐浩音者，乃行楷一种耳。予蚤年临《多宝塔碑》，今仿《画像赞》，犹似伽叶起舞。丙午除夕前一夕灯下识。董其昌。”卷前引首四字：“参指头禅”。卷后有近人宋伯鲁、裴景福、华盦道士李玉梅、沈尹默等四家题跋。鉴藏印钤“乾隆御览之宝”、“三希堂精鉴玺”、“石渠宝笈”等28方。
此卷临唐颜真卿《东方朔画像碑赞》（该碑在山东陵县），书于明万历三十四年（1606年）十二月二十九日，董其昌时年52岁，为其被迫辞去湖广提学副使后不久之作。
该卷师法颜真卿，落笔精绝，笔法劲健，意境高远，为董氏中年时期楷书的代表性杰作，清裴景福称此作有“云鹤游天，群鸿戏海”之美。卷首所临碑额“汉大中大夫东方先生画赞碑”更为其罕见之篆书作品。
董氏17岁初学书法即以颜真卿《多宝塔帖》为宗，数十年来始终临习颜书不辍，并以颜体的朴拙避免笔法圆熟的“俗态”。
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"Mr. Oriental Painting Praise Stele" volume, Ming, Dong Qichang book, paper, regular script, 24.5 cm in length, 558.6 cm in horizontal.
At the end of the volume, I realized that Yan Shangshu's stele was originated from Su Xueshu's book. The world-known Su Xu Haoyin is an ear of Xingkai. In the year of flea, Duo Pagoda Stele is imitated by Picture Zan, which is still like Gala's dancing. The night before New Year's Eve. Dong Qichang." The first four words in front of the volume are "Shen Zhi Zen". After the volume, there are four inscriptions and postscripts, including Song Bolu, Pei Jingfu, Li Yumei, Shen Yinmo, the Taoist priest of Huabi. There are 28 inscriptions in Yinjun, such as "Qianlong Imperial View Treasure", "Sanxitang Exquisite Inscription Seal" and "Shiqu Treasure Point".
This volume is about Tang Yan Zhenqing's "Stele Praise of Eastern Shuo Portraits" (the stele is in Lingxian County, Shandong Province). It was written on December 29, the 34th year of Wanli (1606), when Dong Qichang was 52 years old, shortly after he was forced to resign as an assistant envoy of Huguang School.
This volume master, Yan Zhenqing, has excellent writing skills, vigorous brushwork and lofty artistic conception. It is the representative masterpiece of Dong's regular script in middle age. Qing Pei Jingfu calls it the beauty of "clouds and cranes traveling in the sky and playing in the sea". The inscription of the first volume of the inscription, "Mr. Oriental Painting Praise Stele by Dr. Han Dazhong" is a rare seal book work.
At the beginning of his 17-year-old career, Dong studied calligraphy with Yan Zhenqing's "Duo Pagoda Tie" as his tenet. For decades, he had been constantly facing the habit of Yan Shu, and avoided the "vulgar" style of writing with his simple face.
