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Materials:

Handscroll, ink and colour on paper

Measurements:

13.98 in. (35.50 cm.) (height) by 83.66 in. (212.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

two artist's seals; Colophons by Chen Jiru (1558-1639), with two seals, and an anonymous collector of the 17th century Thirty-six collectors' seals including eight of Liang Qingbiao (1620-1691), four of Geng Zhaozhong (1640-1687), eight of Emperor Qianlong (reigned 1736-1796), one of Emperor Jiaqing (reigned 1796-1820) and three of Emperor Xuantong (reigned 1909-1911)

Literature:

Shiqu Baoji Xubian, jian 1 in Midian Zhulin Shiqu Baoji Hebian, vol. 1, Shanghai Bookstore Publishing, 1988, p.349. James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang, Song and Yuan, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1980, p.287. Sherman E. Lee and Wai-Kam Ho, "Jen Jen-Fa: Three Horses and Four Grooms" in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961, p.72, note 4.

Provenance:

Property from the Estate of Walter Hochstadter. Walter Hochstadter's life revolved around China and its rich art and culture. Born in Augsburg, Germany in 1914, he spent most of his life traveling the globe until he passed away in Australia in 2007. In his early twenties, Mr. Hochstadter journeyed to China, where he studied at the College of Chinese Studies in Beijing. Constantly traveling between East and West, Mr. Hochstadter maintained homes for most of his years in Hong Kong and New York. Although a very private individual, Mr. Hochstadter was well known among connoisseurs, scholars, and collectors of Chinese art. His clients included the most active American collectors of their day, including Avery Brundage, C.C. Wang, and J.T. Tai. Mr. Hochstadter also sold or donated art to numerous museums in the United States and Europe. In addition, he also gifted works of art to the National Palace Museum, Taipei and the University of Hong Kong, where he was named an Honorary Fellow in the late 1950s. His dedication to the study of Chinese art resulted in the authorship of highly regarded scholarly texts on early Chinese ceramics and on the artist Shen Zhou. His later years were spent conducting research and collecting photographs for A Compendium of Chinese Paintings, in which he sought to present a canon of reliably authentic paintings by China's great masters. It is presumed that Mr. Hochstadter intended for these two paintings to form an important part of his book.