明人《岳飞像》轴

Original Chinese:
明人《岳飞像》轴
图绘岳飞头戴四带巾，身穿蟒袍，腰系玉带，手捧书册端坐于交椅上。人物刻画较少拘滞，略带写意趣味。大臣穿蟒袍，是明代才有的现象，可见此像为画家根据明代制度创稿。
Portrait of Yue Fei, by an Anonymous Ming-Dynasty Artist
Yue Fei is depicted seated upright in an official armchair, wearing a four-ribboned cap and a python robe fastened with a jade belt. He holds a book in both hands. The figure is rendered with relative freedom rather than rigid formality, lending the portrait a subtly expressive quality.
The practice of court officials wearing python robes did not emerge until the Ming dynasty. This detail indicates that the portrait was designed by the artist according to Ming-dynasty dress conventions rather than based on the clothing of Yue Fei’s own time.