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Property Formerly in the Collection of Dr. J.T. Lou (陸潤之)

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Mingjian (late 18th-early 19th century)
Landscape after Wang Hui, 1784
Mounted and framed, ink and light color on paper, with an inscription, dated jiachen (1784), with a
dedication to Xiangfu and signed by the artist Yugu Mingjian followed by two seals of the artist.
34 1/4 x 43 3/8in (87 x 110.2cm)
$8,000 - 12,000

明儉 水竹幽居圖 王翚

Provenance:
Dr. J. T. Lou collection (陸潤之), Shanghai and Hong Kong, and thence by descent

Mingjian, who also used the name Jiugu, was a Buddhist monk from Jiangsu Province. Before
taking the vows of a monk, his family name was Wang. In paintings he followed orthodox masters.
His biography is recorded in the Molin Jinhua.

In the present composition Monk Mingjian notes in the inscription that his inspiration for this
painting is Wang Hui’s (1634-1717) Shuizhu Yuju Tu. Wang Hui’s original of this painting, a
handscroll dated 1672, is currently in the the Suzhou Bowuguan, and in the nineteenth century it
was in the collection of Gu Wenbin’s Guoyun Lou collection in Suzhou. It is likely that “Xiangfu”,
the recipient of Mingjian’s painting, is the calligrapher and connoisseur Qian Yue (1743-1815).

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