SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)

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SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)

Forest Mountain in Spring

Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 10½ x 103½in. (26.5 x 263cm.)

Signed: "Painted by Shen Zhou"

One seal of the artist: Shi Tian

Eleven collectors' seals, including ten imperial seals of the Qianlong, Jiaqing and Xuantong Emperors

Three colophons: one by Wu Kuan (1435-1504), with a poem, signed: "inscribed by Wu Kuan of Yanling", with two seals; one by the artist with a poem and states: "In the new autumn of jiyou year of the Hongzhi era (1498), [I] looked at my handscroll again. Bao Weng [Wu Kuan] inscribed at the beginning of the scroll, it added lustre to my scroll, and then [I] composed a poem after that," signed: Shen Zhou of Changzhou, with two seals: Shen Qi Nan shi; Shi Tian; one by the Qianlong Emperor, dated summer of gengshen year (1740)