《荷鹭图》轴，清，黄慎绘，纸本，墨笔，纵130.2 厘米，横71.2厘米。
画幅自题款：“双鹭应怜水满池，风飘不动顶绿垂。立当青草人先见，行榜白莲鱼未知。一分独拳寒雨里，数声相叫早秋时。林塘得雨须增价，况与诗家物色宜。瘿瓢。”钤“黄慎”朱文印、“瘿瓢”白文印。鉴藏印钤“借树山房”。
黄慎的花鸟画更多地继承了明代徐渭的泼墨大写意花鸟画风。此图描绘雨后双鹭于荷塘憩戏觅食的情景。画上荷花数茎，枝叶劲挺，花瓣娇媚，似有暗香浮动。两只白鹭翩翩而下，谨慎地着入水面，画家通过这一细节巧妙地表现出“水满池”的情景，“用笔极简，意趣自足”，由此可见一斑。对于荷叶的用笔恣肆狂放，墨色浓重，显示出荷花枝叶肥厚、“风飘不动”的旺盛生命力。在硕壮浓郁的荷叶的衬托下，以淡而轻的笔法描绘出白鹭的轻盈稚嫩，惹人怜爱。此外，画家在简洁的构图中力求营造空间感：图中荷花高低错落，荷叶相互掩映，俯仰向背，姿态各异，有着明显的纵深前后关系。两只白鹭停息在荷杆之后，尤其那只迎面飞来的白鹭起到了扩展画面空间的作用。在文人画中，很容易因注重笔墨形式而忽略景物的空间感，职业画家出身的黄慎在吸收文人笔墨情趣的同时，恰当地将写实与写意相结合，从而形成自己独特的风格。
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"Lotus Picture" axis, Qing, Huang Shen Painting, paper, ink, 130.2 cm vertical, 71.2 cm horizontal.
Picture from the title: "Two herons should pity the water full pool, the wind does not move the top green pendulum. Standing as a grass-roots forerunner, the list of white lotus fish is unknown. In the cold rain of a single punch, several voices call each other early autumn. Rain in a forest pond requires an increase in price, which is suitable for a poet. Huo Huo." Jun "Huang Shen" Zhu Wenyin and "Ying Po" Bai Wenyin. Kam Zang Yinjun "Borrowing Tree Mountain House".
Huang Shen's flower-and-bird painting inherited more of Xu Wei's ink-splashing freehand flower-and-bird painting style in Ming Dynasty. This picture depicts the two herons relaxing in the lotus pond after the rain and looking for food. Painted lotus stems, strong branches and leaves, petals charming, like a subtle fragrance floating. Two egrets fluttered down and cautiously entered the water. Through this detail, the painter skillfully displayed the scene of "water filling the pool", "using the pen is very simple, and the interest is self-sufficient", which can be seen. For lotus leaves, the brush is bold, dark, showing the vigorous vitality of lotus leaves and branches. Under the background of strong lotus leaves, the light and tender egret is depicted with light brushwork, which is lovely. In addition, the painter strives to create a sense of space in a concise composition: the lotus flowers are scattered, the lotus leaves are mutually masked, pitched to the back, with different postures, and there is a clear relationship between the depth of the front and back. Two egrets stopped behind the pole, especially the one flying in front of them, which played a role in expanding the picture space. In literati paintings, it is easy to neglect the space sense of scenery because of the emphasis on the form of brush and ink. Huang Shen, a professional painter, absorbed the interest of literati brush and ink while properly combining realism with freehand brushwork, thus forming his own unique style.
