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YUAN YAO (ACTIVE 1720-1780)
Spring Mountains

Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on silk
78 ¬ x 95 æ in. (199.5 x 243 cm.)
Dated spring, frst month, yihai year (1755)

$450,000-650,000

Yuan Yao was a professional painter in Yangzhou who worked in
and continued the style of the studio of the popular painter Yuan
Jiang (active ca. 1680-1730). Catering to the preferences of the city’s
wealthy merchants who sought massive hanging scrolls and screens to
fll their mansions, the Yuans created fantastic landscapes of precisely
painted grand residences, using the ruled-line technique, set in dramatic
mountains with swirling mist. These magical vistas at once evoked
imperial palaces of past dynasties and legendary realms of immortals.

According to the current owner, this landscape was displayed in the
“boiserie” study, which was decorated in Chinese style, of Villa Vitiano
in the Tuscan countryside in Chianti since the late 19th century when
it was owned by the Moriani family. The painting was sold by the
Morianis with the villa’s furnishings to Raffaello Landini in 1953. When
Mr. Landini’s son sold the villa and moved to Caracas, Venezuela in the
mid-1970s, he had the painting restored and took it with him. When
the Landini family moved to Miami in the early 1980s, they again took
this landscape with them to their new home, where it has remained in
their family.
清 袁耀 重巒春華 設色絹本 鏡片 一七五五年作
題識：蓬萊僊境。時乙亥（1755年）孟春，邗上袁耀畫。
鈐印：袁、耀
註：袁耀是一位職業的畫家，延續了流行畫家袁江（1680-1730）
的畫室風格。爲了滿足富人為裝飾豪宅對立軸畫以及屏風的需求，
袁氏創作出宏偉精致的住宅風景圖。將界畫技術的運用與巍峨的、
雲纏霧繞的群山融合在一起。這些奇妙的設定讓人聯想起奢華的宮
廷生活以及玄妙的仙人傳説。據收藏者所說，在Moriani家族收藏
這幅畫期間，曾於十九世紀晚期將此畫展於其位於安蒂托斯卡納別
墅中的中式風格書房。1953年，Moriani家族將這幅畫作爲別墅裝
飾的一部分一起賣給了Raffaello Landini。Landini先生的兒子於二十
世紀七十年代中期賣掉了別墅並搬到委内瑞拉的卡拉卡斯居住，他
將此畫修復並攜帶至委内瑞拉。二十世紀八十年代初，Landini家族
移居邁阿密，又一次將此畫帶到邁阿密。此後一直被他們家族收藏
於邁阿密。

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