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Lot *221
IN THE STYLE OF HUA YAN (1682-1756)
Estimated Value:
500 € - 800 €
Schätzpreis:
1.000 €
Description:
China, ca. 18. ct.115,5 x 64 cm
Snow Mountains after Wang Wei. Ink and light colors on silk, mounted as hanging scroll. Signature: “Copy of the painting ‘Clearing after Snowfall’ by Wang Mojie (Wang Wei, 699-759), for the judgement of third brother Mister Yuxi, Xinluo shanren Hua Yan.” Two seals of the artist: “Hua Yan”, „Qiuyue”.
Old southern German private collection, assembled prior 1990
Hua Yan, style name Qiuyue, was from Shanghang in Fujian province. He studied painting in Hangzhou where he learned the academic style of the Song dynasty, and shortly went to Peking where he passed an examination and got a minor post in the northern border region. He returned to Hangzhou already one year later and dedicated his life to painting, travelling between Hangzhou and Suzhou. He was a kind of scholarly professional painter who excelled in many styles, also in the academic landscape painting as this fine composition shows.
Very minor traces of age
