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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
女爵藏品
Lots 81 - 82

81
A MONUMENTAL AND RARE PAINTING OF HORSES
AT PASTURE
After Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining), Late Qing Dynasty/Republic
Period
Ink and colour on silk, depicting a groom in blue robes with a staff,
watching over a herd of eight horses at pasture, all amidst a landscape
with trees, a lake and rustic European style houses in the background,
with apocryphal seals of Lang Shining, framed.
244.5cm (96 1/4in) wide x 218 (81 7/8in) high.
£50,000 - 80,000
CNY450,000 - 710,000
清末/民國 郎世寧（傳） 八駿圖 設色絹本

Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 -
1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order
of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius
IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Margaretha d’Austria
Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
According to the collection inventory list, acquired in Beijing.

來源：
佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）及馬加
烈特•奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利•得•馬基奧女侯爵（1894-
1986）伉儷收藏
據檔案記載，購自北平

Giuseppe Castiglione (Chinese name: Lang Shining, 1688-1766) was painting technqiues to China was substantial and his paintings of
a Jesuit missionary and painter at the Qing Court who served the horses in particular were admired and copied well into the 20th century
Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors. Originally from Milan, by famous artists such as Pu Ru 溥儒 (1896-1963) and Pu Quan 溥佺
in 1715 he arrived in Macau and reached Beijing a year later where (1913-1991).
he was presented to the Kangxi Emperor and assigned to work as
an artisan in the Palace enamelling workshop. However, his skill The present lot, with its vanishing-point perspective and subdued
in portraiture was particularly appreciated by the Yongzheng and shading was closely modelled after Castiglione’s paintings and his
Qianlong Emperors. paintings of horses in particular. Some of them are identifiable by
name, for example, the steed Xue Diandiao (雪點鵰) standing in the
One of Castiglione’s earliest surviving paintings is One Hundred Horses foreground. See The Selected Painting of Lang Shih-ning (Josephus
(百駿圖), painted in 1728 for the Yongzheng Emperor. In this painting Castiglione), vol.II, Hong Kong, 1971. The figure on the far right,
of various horses at pasture, Castiglione adapted his Western painting however, appears to be more of a shepherd with a staff rather than a
style to Chinese themes and tastes, reducing strong shadows but groom with a whip, and was probably modelled after other imported
employing single-point perspective. His influence in bringing European European etchings and prints.

(collection inventory list)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.