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FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARGARET F. ( AHERN ) WINSPER
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STYLE OF YUAN JIANG (ACTIVE 1690-1746) Yuan Jiang (active 1690-1746) and later his nephew Yuan Yao (1720-
Landscape 1780) painted in a similar ‘family style’ that captured the sublime
Ink and color on silk, laid onto board, with a collector’s seal of Prince monumentality of Northern Song landscapes. The present painting,
Yi, Yinxiang, later Yunxiang (1686-1730), the thirteenth son of the likely a section of a longer, large horizontal scroll, has a grand sense
Kangxi emperor and brother of the Yongzheng emperor, reading Yiqin of scale. This is amplified by the clear division of the immediate
Wang bao. foreground which is linked to the middle ground by a diagonal path
24 x 40 3/8in (61 x 102.7cm) and series of bridges, and the high mountain in the deep distance
surmounted by a massive building complex. Although Yuan Jiang and
US$30,000 - 50,000 Yuan Yao had a shared style, the presence of the Yiqin Wang Bao
seal, belonging to Yinxiang, Prince Yi (1686-1730), indicates that this
(傳)袁江 青綠山水樓閣 設色絹本 landscape was painted by the older Yuan Jiang who served as a court
painter during the Yongzheng period.

Provenance
William Ahern, thereafter by descent.

Cited
Richard M. Barnhart, Peach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in
Chinese Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, p.
118.

來源
William Ahern舊藏, 後由家族成員繼承

文獻引用
班宗華,Peach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in Chinese
Paintings, 紐約大都會博物館, 1983年,118頁.

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