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Lot *49
In the Style of Fan Kuan (ca. 960 - ca. 1030)
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Schätzpreis:
6.000 €
Description:
China, ca. 18th ct.34,4 x 379 cm
Mountain Landscape with Scholars and Travelers. Ink and colors on silk, mounted as a handscroll.
Signature at the end of the scroll: “Painted by Fan Zhongli”. Three (artist's) seals illegible. Five collector’s seals from Gao Shiyi (Qing dynasty): “Cangmangzhai shoucang jin shi shuhua” (Collection of bronzes, stones, calligraphy and paintings in the Cangmang Studio), "Gao Shiyi jianshang zhang", "Huayang guoshi zhenmi zhi yin". (This collector has also written the title slab at the outside of the scroll, dated renzi (1852, 1912), and probably had the scroll new mounted).
From an old southern German private collection, acquired between 1970 and 2002
Amidst towering autumn mountains scholars are visiting friends in their studios, travelers are climbing steep paths and peasants are working in their fields. The huts of a scholar, a nearby temple in the mountains and an old fashioned pavilion with scholars enjoying a large lake with fishers in their boats mark the center of the composition. A steep cliff concludes it. The rocks and mountains are painted in the so called Northern School tradition with heavy ink outlines and modeled with very short strokes like dots. These are the famous ‘raindrop texture strokes’ which are especially characteristic for the Song master Fan Kuan. He was one of the great masters of monumental landscape painting in the Northern Song dynasty and his most prominent work, ‘Travelers by Streams and Mountains’, is kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Very minor damages due to age
