AN ANONYMOUS PAINTING OF A LADY

Estimated Value:

4.000 € - 6.000 €

Schätzpreis:

4.000 €

Description:

China, ca. 1850
60 x 47,5 cm, R.
A Chinese lady wearing an informal turquoise silk robe over yellow pantaloons sits smoking a pipe, with her son standing at her side; a terraced garden is seen through an open door. Oil on canvas, framed.
From an old private collection in northern Germany, acquired in 1988 from Martyn Gregory, London
Published: Martyn Gregory Catalogue 51, 'Chinnery and paintings of the China Coast', Summer 1988, no. 108, p. 89
Decorative pictures such as these were popular souvenirs for western merchants to take home, as they show vividly the Chinese fashions, interior decorations and artefacts so far removed from their western counterparts.

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