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A RARE LARGE PAINTING OF THE SUMMER PALACE This historical landscape painting depicts the Garden of Nurtured
Late Qing Dynasty Harmony, better known as the Summer Palace Yihe yuan 頤和園,
Gouache on paper, the painting composed of six vertical panels of located on the north-west outskirts of Beijing. In 1749, the Qianlong
equal width depicting a bird’s eye view of the Yihe Yuan or Summer emperor commissioned the construction of these Imperial gardens on
Palace, the perspective taken looking to the West showing Kunming the hill and in 1752 he gave it the name ‘Longevity Hill’ in celebration
Lake with the Island of the Dragon King and the Seventeen-Arch of his mother’s 60th birthday. The Summer Palace was completed in
Bridge on the left, the right hand side depicting the Longevity Hill with 1750 when it was known as the Garden of Clear Ripples (Qingyi yuan).
the Palace complex dominated by the octagonal Tower of Buddhist Kunming Lake was created by extending an existing body of water
Incense, the foreground with the well-known massive bronze sculpture that mimicked the famous West Lake of Hangzhou. The painting was
of an ox, the middle background with the Jade Spring Hill with the once probably used as a screen.
seven-tiered pagoda and further buildings, before the Western Hills.
178cm (78in) long x 96.5cm (38in) high. Compare with a related painting of the Summer Palace, Qing dynasty,
18th/19th century, which was sold at Sotheby’s London, 7 November
£10,000 - 15,000 2018, lot 106.
CNY90,000 - 140,000

清晚期 頤和園風景 紙本水粉

Provenance: a French private collection

來源：法國私人收藏

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