The painting depicts Autumn mallow visited by butterflies.  The artist signs to the left: "Hung-shou has painted this in the Chieh-yuan Garden". 
1 seal reads: Lao-lien.

This is the 1st leaf in the album "Hua-hui hua-tse" (Album of Flower Painting).

Chen Hung-shou (1599 - 1652) was a native of Chu-chi in Chechiang Province.  His tzu was chang-hou, and his hao Lao-lien.  After the year chia-shen (1644, when the Manchus conquered China) he called himself Hui-chih ("Regretting I am [born] too late"), also Wu-chih ("Don't be tardy").  He was brilliant in many genres, whether in figure-painting, flower and bird or insects, always expressing his individual feelings through inventive transformation.  His figures are lanky, attenuated and imposing, their facial expressions severe and forceful.  His brushwork in fine line twists and curves throughout like a soft wire wound around the finger, full of a strange and elegant flavour.  Yet he managed never to lose proportions.  Born in chi-hai, 27th year of the Wan-li reign of the Ming emperor Shen-tsung, he died under the Manchus, in jen-chen, 9th year in the Shun-chih reign of the Ching emperor Shih-tsu, in his 54th year.