Ink painting.  A groom and his horse are shown standing buffeted by strong winds.  The horse's mane, the groom's whiskers as well as his garments flutter with great animation.  One can virtually hear the wind soughing.  Chao's brushwielding is fine like hair an yet powerful as an arrow.  Almost as if it were the work of supernatural beings, such fine brushwork seems to be beyond the power of mere mortals.
The signature in the upper left corner reads "Tzu-ang" and is followed by a seal, Chao-shih Tzu-ang.
Chao Meng-fu (1254 - 1322) as a native of Wu-hsing on Chechiang Province.  His tzu was Tzu-ang.  The plaque above the door of his studio read Sung-hsueh-chai (Pine - Snow Study), and he made his hao Sung-hsueh Tao-jen.  There was also a pavilion called "Ou-po-ting" on his estate, and people called him Ou-po.  He was the eleventh-generation descendant of the founding emperor of the Sung dynasty Tai-tzu, and a descendant of the King of Chin Teh-fang.  He served the Mongol Court of the Yuan, his office reaching that of Director of the Han-lin Academy; he was given the posthumous name of Wen-min.  He excelled in the painting of landscapes, trees and rocks, flowers and birds, figures, horses as well as in calligraphy where he specialized in the seal, clerical, formal, semi-cursive and cursive scripts.  This extremely gifted man's abilities are largely obscured by his fame in painting and calligraphy.  Those who know his arts do not know his works in belles-lettres; those familiar with his belles-lettres do not know his treatises on economics, so versatile and extensive were his gifts.  His wife Kuan Tao-sheng and his sons Yung and I were all known for their painting and calligraphy.  He was born in the 2nd year of the Pao-yu era under the Sung emperor Li-tsung and died in the 2nd year of the Chih-chih era under the Yuan emperor Ying-tsung in his 69th year.