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Wang Juzheng
Northern Song painter of court ladies, son of the figure painter Wang Zhuo, to whom the Spinning Wheel scroll in the Palace Museum is traditionally attributed
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Wang Juzheng the Northern Song painter
Wang Juzheng was the son of Wang Zhuo, a Hedong painter of Buddhist and Daoist figures who worked on the murals of the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace. Guo Ruoxu's Record of Paintings Seen and Heard says Wang Juzheng painted court ladies, modelling himself closely on the Tang master Zhou Fang, and was meticulous but short on spirit. The unsigned silk scroll The Spinning Wheel in the Palace Museum, Beijing, showing a village woman nursing a child while she works her wheel, is traditionally attributed to him; it bears seals of Jia Sidao and a colophon by Zhang Daqian. He is not the official of the same name who served around the fall of the Northern Song.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the early to mid Northern Song (11th century)