LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink and color on silk, handscroll

Measurements:

7.80 in. (19.80 cm.) (height) by 76.61 in. (194.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Hongshou, inscribed, with a dedication to Daoist Qieqian, and with one seal of the artist, hong shou, and seven collector's seals, shi yuan, bo xiong mi ji, tian mu shan ren, hou shi tai jian cang, yang zong zhi, sheng gu, zun gu tang zhen shang. Colophons by Wu Zi (1813-1858), dated dingmao of the Tongzhi reign (1867), and with one seal, wu zi zhi yin; Bao Dong, dated dingmao of the Tongzhi reign (1867), with two seals, zi liang fu, bao dong chang shou; and Wang Honglang, dated jimao of the Guanxu reign (1879), and with one seal, ji fu shen ding

Literature:

Artibus Asiae: Neo-Taoism and 'The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove' in Chinese Painting, Ellen Johnston Laing, 1974, pp. 46-48, pl. 34, 35; The Distant Mountains: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Dynasty 1570-1644, James Cahill, New York: Weatherhill, 1982, pp. 256-257, pl. 135 ; The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, James Cahill, Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1982, fig. 4.34-4.35, pp. 130-134; ARS Orientalis 35, The World's a Stage: The Theatricality of Chen Hongshou's Figure Painting, by Shi-yee Liu, Washington D. C., Smithsonian Institution, 2008, pp. 170-172, pl. 20

Provenance:

Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy, November 29, 2009, Lot 816; Property from the Estate of Walter Hochstadter