In the style of Liu Guandao (ca. 1258-1336)

Description:

China, Qing Dynasty
28,2 x 32,2 cm, mit Montierung 158 x 44 cm
Three scholars in a garden. Ink and colors on silk, album leaf, remounted as a hanging scroll. In a garden landscape, a scholar, dressed in a long and wide robe, sits on a round mat under a banana tree next to a rock. He is about to write a poem. In front of him are writing utensils, on his left two other scholars. Signature on the left: Liu Guandao zhi (made by Liu Guandao), four collector's seals.
Old and important German private collection, collected since the 1950s until 2007 - Minor signs of age, minor rest.
Liu Guandao, who went by the style name Zhongxian, was a native of Zhongshan (now Dingxian, Hebei) and a court painter of the early Yuan who was exceptional skilled in realism. In 1279, he stood out for his portrait of Emperor Yuzong and was awarded with the post "Commissioner of the Imperial Wardrobe Bureau." He was praised as a master of many painting subjects in "Tuhuibaojian" (Treasured Mirror of Paintings)