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WANG JIAN (1598-1677)
LANDSCAPE IN SNOW AFTER JURAN
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
57.4 x 28.6 cm. (22 2/3 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed: Wang Jian, with one seal of the artist: Wang Jian Zhi Yin
Dated fourth month, bingchen year (1676)
Inscription states that this is painted after Juran
One collector's seal of Xu Weiren (19th century): Zi Shan Mi Wan
Note:
The original painting, Snow Landscape, attributed to the Five Dynasties master Juran, is housed in the Palace Museum, Taipei (see Taipei Gugong Shuhualu (Paintings and Calligraphy in the Taipei Palace Museum), Vol. 1, p.89). It is recorded that when Wang Shimin (1592-1680) was learning to painting from Dong Qichang (1555-1636), Dong made available to Wang the paintings in his collection which included the Juran piece. Wang paintined a large album of twenty-two leaves of landscapes by ancient masters, and Dong Qichang inscribed corresponding colophons in this album, also writing the frontispiece Xiao Zhong Xian Da (Large Revealed through the Small). This album is now in the Taipei Palace Museum (see Fong Wen et. al., Images of the Mind, Princeton University, 1984, p.179). Wang Shimin is reported to have constantly kept this album with him, and later showed it to Wang Jian and others fortunate enough. Wang Hui (1632-1717) also copied this painting in an album, with Wang Shimin writing the frontispiece - again Xiao Zhong Xian Da, and that copy is now in the Shanghai Musuem (see Wai Kim-ho ed., The Century of Tung Chi-Chang, Washington University Museum, 1992, p.439). Wang Jian appears to have copied this painting several times. One is the present lot, and there is another hanging scroll of this subject by Wang Jian in the Shanghai Museum (See Wai Kim-ho, ibid., p. 362). Since Dong Qichag promulgated the idea of the northern and southern schools of painting, all the early Qing masters including the four Wangs were busy copying ancient masters, as evidenced by the copying of the Juran scroll resulting in the present lot.
LANDSCAPE IN SNOW AFTER JURAN
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
57.4 x 28.6 cm. (22 2/3 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed: Wang Jian, with one seal of the artist: Wang Jian Zhi Yin
Dated fourth month, bingchen year (1676)
Inscription states that this is painted after Juran
One collector's seal of Xu Weiren (19th century): Zi Shan Mi Wan
Note:
The original painting, Snow Landscape, attributed to the Five Dynasties master Juran, is housed in the Palace Museum, Taipei (see Taipei Gugong Shuhualu (Paintings and Calligraphy in the Taipei Palace Museum), Vol. 1, p.89). It is recorded that when Wang Shimin (1592-1680) was learning to painting from Dong Qichang (1555-1636), Dong made available to Wang the paintings in his collection which included the Juran piece. Wang paintined a large album of twenty-two leaves of landscapes by ancient masters, and Dong Qichang inscribed corresponding colophons in this album, also writing the frontispiece Xiao Zhong Xian Da (Large Revealed through the Small). This album is now in the Taipei Palace Museum (see Fong Wen et. al., Images of the Mind, Princeton University, 1984, p.179). Wang Shimin is reported to have constantly kept this album with him, and later showed it to Wang Jian and others fortunate enough. Wang Hui (1632-1717) also copied this painting in an album, with Wang Shimin writing the frontispiece - again Xiao Zhong Xian Da, and that copy is now in the Shanghai Musuem (see Wai Kim-ho ed., The Century of Tung Chi-Chang, Washington University Museum, 1992, p.439). Wang Jian appears to have copied this painting several times. One is the present lot, and there is another hanging scroll of this subject by Wang Jian in the Shanghai Museum (See Wai Kim-ho, ibid., p. 362). Since Dong Qichag promulgated the idea of the northern and southern schools of painting, all the early Qing masters including the four Wangs were busy copying ancient masters, as evidenced by the copying of the Juran scroll resulting in the present lot.