Landscape in the Style of Zhao Mengfu

Details

SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)
Landscape in the Style of Zhao Mengfu
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
29 x 164 cm. (11 3/8 x 64 5/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated second month, bingchen year of the Hongzhi period (1496)
Colophons by Wu Weiye (1609-1672), He Yuanying (17th Century) and Guo Huixian, with a total of six seals
Nineteen collector’s seals, including four of Bi Yuan (1730-1797), one of Bi Long (18th Century), one of Liang Zhangju (1775-1849), one of Pang Peichang (19th-20th Century) and seven of Wang Jiqian (1906-2003, two of which on the mounting)

Literature

Capital Museum ed., Bao Wu Tang - Magnificent Collection of Classical Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from Abroad, Beijing Yin Shan Press, Beijing, pp.58-61.
Tian Hong, Ershi Shiji Haiwai Cangjia – Wang Jiqian Cang Zhongguo Lidai Minghua Part I, Tianjin People’s Fine Art Publishing, Tianjin, November 2013, pp.243-244, pl.140-141.

Exhibited

Beijing, Capital Museum, Bao Wu Tang - Magnificent Collection of Classical Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from Abroad, 10-29 November 2009.

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Lot Essay

Dewy and Refined: Shen Zhou’s Landscape in the Style of Zhao Mengfu

Shen Zhou (1427-1509) was a pivotal scholar igniting the emergence and eventually dominance of Wu School in the Chinese paintings history. Through endless creation and practice, his landscapes were influenced by the Song masters Mi Fu, Xia Gui and the four Yuan masters, and eventually established his bold and solid style.

Landscape in the Style of Zhao Mengfu was painted in the spring of 1496 for a patron when Shen Zhou was seventy years old. A perfect example of his mature style landscape, it measures 164 cm., not very long but exemplifies mountains, trees, cottages and footbridges rendered in delicate and dewy brushwork. This is a refined landscape that differs from his more commonly found ones with crude and simple compositions.

Apart from the colophons inscribed by Wu Weiye (1609-1672), He Yuanying (17th C.) and Guo Huixian, collector’s seals of Bi Yuan (1730-1797), Bi Long (18th C.) and Wang Jiqian (1906-2003) are found on the handscroll. In no doubt Landscape in Style of Zhao Mengfu is a gem for collectors and connoisseurs.

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