倣陳洪壽人物

Gai's first inscription reads

嘉慶五年秋九月上澣,玉壺外士改 琦 寫于澄園

During the first ten days of the ninth lunar month in the fifth year of the Jiaqing reign [1800] the "Jade-vase mountain dweller," Gai Qi, painted this at the Cheng Garden.

Gai's second inscription reads

此畫余十年前所作也。筆意效老蓮居士本。蓋繪事非天才不能辦到。余自愧老拙，未能仿佛古人萬一也。時丁卯冬至日。七薌改琦又記

This painting is one I did ten years ago. I painted it after an example by the retired scholar, Laolian [Chen Hongshou].  As a matter of fact, no one can paint, unless he is talented. I regret that I am old and clumsy, thus I am unable to catch even one ten thousandth of what old masters could do. It is the winter solstice day in 1807 when Qixiang, Gai Qi, again inscribes this. [tr. M. Wu]