In the style of Zhao Zhong

Description:

China, 17th/18th c.
Bildmaß 26,3 x 23 cm, Album 35 x 29 x 3,3 cm
Twelve depictions of the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Album with twelve sheets, ink on paper. Signature in seal script on the last sheet: "Painted by Zhao Zhong from Wujiang with washed hands." One seal: "Zhong". Each illustration is accompanied by explanatory inscriptions in chancery script, each with two seals of Zhou Nanlin: "Siegel des Zhou...", "Nanlin". The album shows two appearances of the bodhisattva of mercy, Guanyin, in fine line drawings (baimiao) with extensive ink shading: Among others, sitting on a rock in the sea, crossing the sea on a lotus leaf, with the boy Sudhana who sought enlightenment from him, on lotus plants, on a rock with a dragon and standing in front of a large nimbus of flame.
An old South German private collection, collected before 1990
Zhao Zhong, whose male name was Yuanchu, came from Wujiang and was a doctor, calligrapher and painter. He specialised in the technique of pure line drawing, in which he depicted figures or flowers - Signs of age and use