长久以来,《履巉岩本草》作为一本罕见的植物写生图谱,一直为美术史学界所忽视。究其原因,一者因此书自成书后久未现世,直至上世纪40年代方重新进入收藏界视野;二者或因其题材特殊所致,且其作者王介在画史中渺然无闻,使得历代藏家对其人其作甚少问津。然而此书实关涉到中国艺术史中一些有趣而关键的问题,兹文即意在对其略加考探。 For a long time, “Lvbi Yan Materia Medica” as a rare plant sketches, has always been neglected by art historians. The reason for this is that one book has since been published for so long that it has not yet been reborn until the forties of the last century re-entered the field of view of the collectors. Both of them were caused by their special themes and their author Wang Jie was unidentified in the history of painting, Collectors seldom care about their own people. However, this book is really concerned with some interesting and crucial issues in the history of Chinese art.