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YAN BING (19TH CENTURY) AND YU ZOUYAN (19TH CENTURY) Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes:
Villa of Cloud Watching Mountain 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard
A single handscroll, the frontpiece title by Zhang Xianghe (1785-1862), Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts,
ink on gold-flecked paper, dated yisi (1845), with two seals Daya and 2007, pp. 480-481
Cengyou Guilin ershisi yandong; first painting section by Yu Zouyan, Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九
ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist, dated 及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，
Jiachen (1844), with one artist’s seal Zouyan, and one collector’s 2007年，頁480-481
seal Yong’an Shen shi cang shuhua yin; the third section of poems in
running script by Zhang Xianghe, dated jiachen (1844), followed by Exhibited/展覽:
two seals Shiling and Cengyou guilin ershisi yandong, three collectors’ Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon
seals; the fourth section of eight continuous paintings in album format Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, California,
by Yan Langru, ink on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist, with October 25, 2000-January 14, 2001
one artist’s seal Langru, and two collectors’ seals one reading Yong’an 《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，
Shen shi cang shuhua yin, dated dingsi (1845); the last section of 亞洲藝術博物館，舊金山，加州，2000年10月25日至2001年1月14日
essays by various artists, including Wu Jiamao, Liu Danian, Wu Jing,
Wu Kai, Yu Yingsong, and Huang Antao, the scroll with the outer New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu,
titleslip inscribed by Jin Yue (1892-1972), with a seal Junxuan. Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007
Frontpiece title: 12 7/8 x 51in (32.8 x 129.3cm); 《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香術博
Painting by Yu Zouyan: 12 7/8 x 39 5/8in (32.9 x 100.5cm); 物館，夏威夷，2007年8月30日至10月28日
Poems by Zhang Xianghe: 12 1/4 x 74 1/2in (31.1 x 189.2cm);
Painting by Yan Bing: 12 3/8 x 78 1/2in (31.3 x 199.5cm
The centerpiece of this handscroll is the Villa of Cloud Watching
$3,000 - 5,000 Mountain (Wangyun shanzhuang), a garden estate belonged to the
patron of the work - Zhang Xianghe. Zhang Xianghe was a prominent
余奏言 望雲山莊圖 設色紙本 手卷 一八四四年作 Qing official, who used the courtesy name Yuanqin, and sobriquets
張祥河題詠 水墨紙本 一八四四年作 Shiling, Fahua shanren. He was a native of Songjiang
顏炳 望雲山莊八景圖 水墨紙本 一八四五年作 (today’s Shanghai).
吳家懋、劉大年、吳敬、吳楷、余應松、黃安濤題跋 水墨紙本
The handscroll comprises five sections by various artists. It starts with
Provenance/來源: Zhang Xianghe’s own title piece. Then in the first painting section,
China Guardian, Beijing, 28 October 1998, lot 843 Yu Zouyan created a panoramic-like view, in which simultaneously
中國嘉德，北京，1998年10月28日，拍品編號843 presented the architecture and the surrounding landscape. In contrast
to Yu Zouyan’s work, Yan Bing featured the eight views of the villa in
Published/出版: album leaf format individually. The eight views correspondent to the
Toda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated eight poems composed by Zhang Xianghe, mounted before
Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and Yan Bing’s painting.
Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013,
A50-39, pp. 194-195 To accompany the visual presentation of the villa, Zhang Xianghe
戶田禎佑、小川裕充，《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編，第一卷，東京大 further invited his friend to write poems and essays on the same
學出版會，東京，2013年，A50-39，頁194-195 subject. In the first essay, Wu Jiamao not only admired the beauty of
the villa like others did, but also praised the filial piety of Zhang Xianghe
Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao. Between the – he built the villa so that his mother could enjoy the tranquility.
Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War Through
the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979, San Francisco: Echo Rock The Villa of Cloud Watching Mountain was destroyed during the wars
Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee of the 20th century. However, this handscroll survived the turmoil and
Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000, p. 165 preserves the rich history of garden design of the Jiangnan region.
Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao,《風雲際
會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術
博物館，李鐘文亞洲藝術文化中心，舊金山，加州，2000年，頁165

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