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ATTRIBUTED TO LAMQUA (GUAN QIAOCHANG, Lamqua (Guan Qiaochang 關喬昌, active 1820-1860) was one of the
ACTIVE 1820-1860) most prominent Chinese painters specializing in portraiture and skilled
La Surprise after Claude-Marie Dubufe, circa 1840-1845 in copying Western prints, as evinced by the portrait of Sir Jamesetje
Oil on canvas, on a stretcher, framed. Jeejeebhoy offered in this sale (Lot 8). Having studied under the British
14 x 10in (35.6 x 25.4cm) painter George Chinnery (1774-1852), Lamqua was the first named
Chinese painter working in the Western manner to be exhibited in
US$15,000 - 25,000 America.
La Surprise was copied from a print by S. Cousin and W. Rofle after
（傳）林呱 臨克勞德·馬立·杜卜夫《驚喜》 a painting by Claude-Marie Dubufe (French, 1790-1864), now in
布面油畫 鏡框 約1840-1845年作 the National Gallery, London. Dubufe was a student of Jacques-
Louis David and exhibited at the 1810 Salon. La Surprise is similar
Provenance in execution to Lamqua’s painting of the Grande Odalisque, now in
Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, 1987, by repute the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum. That composition was
created from an 1825 lithograph of an 1814 painting by Jean-Auguste-
來源 Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).
據藏家，1987年購於麻省波士頓Childs畫廊
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