After Zhao Mengfu, Hundred horses | 趙孟頫（款）百駿圖設色紙本二聯鏡框

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April 20, 10:43 AM GTNN

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from an European private collects ion

After Zhao Mengfu

Hundred horses

ink and colour on paper, in four parts, of which the frontipiece and the colophons were mounted as handscrolls, and the main painting was divided in two parts, which are framed and under glass, the painting bearing signature Zhao Mengfu, with two seals, and with one collects or seal

Titleslip bearing signature Gu Da Ding Xing, with one seal

Frontispiece bearing signature Gu Ningyuan, with three seals

Colophons bearing signatures Wen Fenggang, Chen Hongshou and Chen Shi Ting, with five seals

Paintings: 46 x 228 cm; 46 x 243 cm, 18 1/8 by 89 3/4 in.; 18 1/8 by 95 5/8 in.

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collects ion particulière européenne

D'après Zhao Mengfu

Cent chevaux, encre et couleurs sur papier, en deux parties, encadrés et sous verre

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歐洲私人收藏

趙孟頫（款）百駿圖設色紙本二聯鏡框

鈐印：趙孟頫印、趙氏子昂

鑒藏印：宮保鑒賞

外箋：古大定惺。鈐印：鐂兆□印

引首：顧凝遠（款）。引首章：月傍九霄多。鈐印：顧凝遠印、青霞

題跋：翁方綱（款）、陳鴻壽（款）、陳詩庭（款）。引首章：希逸氏。鈐印：翁方綱印、陳鴻壽、曼生、秋景盦

Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) is an historical scholar, poet and calligrapher, who served at the Yuan dynasty court as high ranking official and became an example of moral rectitude. His works include some of the most famous paintings of horses, including the most renown painting of groom and horses preserved Metropolitan Museum, New York:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collects ion/search/40507

He also pained landscapes and rocks:

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Zhao_Meng_Fu_Elegant_Rocks_and_Sparse_Trees.jpg.

He promoted Confucians ideals through his colophons and poetry and eventually developed his own style of calligraphy. His work has long been studied and replicated by generations of painters and calligraphers. The present scroll which is based on another related example from the Qing court collects ion can be dated to the Republican period during the early 20th century (1911-1949).