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The Marquis de Fortia d’Urban visited Hangzhou in 1840 are known. One example is illustrated in W. de Kesel and
and provided his impressions of the city in his Description Greet Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer Screens, Gent, 2002,
de la Chine et des États tributaires de l’Empereur, fig 48. Other screens are published in Nicole Brugier,
writing that “The lake is famous in the whole Empire Les Laques de Coromandel, Paris, 2015: one coromandel
for its enchanting views and wonderful walks in dreamy screen but with ten panels belonging to Anne Duchange,
landscapes. [...]. All its banks are covered with hamlets, is illustrated ibid., p. 121; another screen with twelve
gardens, nice houses, Triumphal arches made of stone panels but of smaller size from the Brugier Collection is
and pavilions of all shapes. There are even several imperial illustrated ibid., pp. 122-123. Another screen featuring
dwellings, in one of which the famous Emperor Kangxi a view of the West Lake, formerly in the Collection of
stayed when he visited the southern provinces of his Louise C. Morgan, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New
empire.’, ibid., p. 126. York, 29th May to 1st June 1974, lot 571, while a screen
with a scene from Hangzhou was sold at Christie’s New
Several large Coromandel screens depicting Views of
the West Lake and similarly dated to the Kangxi period York, 20th October 2004, lot 448.

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