家庭及关联

• 正室：金氏（1720－1782）。官至贵州按察使吴县金祖静之女。

有子女三人。

• 女：钱孟钿（1739－1806），女诗人。适乾隆二十六年进士官湖北荆宜施道崔龙见，康熙五十七年进士官至湖北巡抚崔纪之子。

• 长子：钱中铣（1744－1779），乾隆三十九年钦赐举人，官内阁中书。娶庄氏庄环玦（1743－1785），雍正五年进士官浙江海防道庄柱孙女、乾隆十九年状元官翰林院侍讲学士庄培因之女。

• 次子：钱中钰（1749－1779），监生，官中书科中书。娶刘氏（1751－1806），康熙五十一年进士官太子少保协办大学士刘于义孙女、四川布政使刘益之女。

注释

Life

Qian Weicheng (style name Zongpan, sobriquet You』an), a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu, came in first place in the civil service exams of 1745. In painting, he looked back to the Four Yuan Masters and more recently in his day to the Four Wangs of the Qing. Receiving instruction from Dong Bangda, he also entered the Southern Studio at court.

Works

This album originally formed part of a four-volume set depicting scenery and flowers of the four seasons. Representing the varied faces of winter, the twelve paintings in the album alternate between the soft grays and muted colors of wintry landscapes and the intense colors of seasonal flowers.

This work illustrates a poem by the Qianlong Emperor. With meticulous brushwork, it depicts the imperial bodyguard pushing and pulling a yellow ice-sled tent on which Qianlong rides, slowly making their way across the Taiye Lake of the Western Gardens. In the white lyricism of this ice-bound land and light flying snow, figures dot the landscape set off against the wide frozen lake and imperial buildings on the banks.