Chinese school, after Giuseppe Castiglione 郎世寧 (1688-1...

Estimate

€30,000 - €60,000

Chinese school, after Giuseppe Castiglione 郎世寧 (1688-1766): '100 horses', handscroll, ink and colour on paper, 18/19th C.

Description:

Dim.: 1167 x 39,5 cm (including the mount)
Dim.: 333 x 34 cm (the painting)

Provenance:
- A South German private collection.
- Acquired at Koller, Zurich, June 04, 2019, lot 283. (Sold CHF 53.980) (direct link available on rm-auctions.com)
- The collection of Jurgen Fischer, Ascona, author of Chinesische Kunst - ein uberblick uber die wichtigsten Sammelgebiete.
- Sold at Koller, Zurich, May 16, 1987, lot 484.

Ref.:
- Illustrated in J.L. Fischer, Chinesische Kunst - ein uberblick uber die wichtigsten Sammelgebiete, 1997, p.42.
- Exhibited: Schätze fur den Kaiser - Meisterwerke Chinesischer Kunst, Roemer und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany, Nov. 2015-Dec. 2016.
- The slightly larger original scroll by Giuseppe Castiglione is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Taipei.
- A similar but also smaller scroll which refers to the original is by Ignatius Sichelbart (Ai Qimeng, 1708-1780), exhibited in the Tianjin Museum.





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