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THE PROPERTY OF A DUTCH FAMILY
荷蘭家族藏品

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YANG JIN (1644-1728)
Herdboy and Buffaloes, cyclically dated to the Dingyou
year corresponding to 1717 and of the period
Ink and colour on silk, with calligraphic inscription
and seals of the artist, framed and glazed.
140cm (55in) long x 70cm (27 1/2in) wide.

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY91,000 - 140,000

丁酉年（1717年）
楊晉（1644-1728年） 牧童 設色紙本 鏡框

Provenance: a Dutch private collection

來源： 荷蘭私人收藏

Yang Jin 楊晉, styled Zi He (子鶴), pseudonym Xi
Ting (西亭), was born in Changshu in the Jiangsu
province. His paintings exhibit a meticulous quality
that closely followed Orthodox masters of the early
Qing such as the Four Wangs.

The painting is inscribed:

草茂豐林朝雨足，朅來牛背郊原綠。
笛聲不解理宮商，信口吹成太平曲。
丁酉長至，擬宋人畫法，虞山楊晉

Which may be translated as:

‘Verdant grasses and lush forests full from the
morning rain, arriving on oxen back to the green
open country.
The sound of the flute does not understand the
formal tones of court, trust ones mouth to play
and succeed at peace and tranquility.
[Written in the] Dingchou year Summer Solstice,
paralleling Song dynasty techniques of painting,
Yang Jin of Yushan.’

Compare with a similar hanging scroll painting
by Yang Jin of buffalo on willow bank, also dated
1717, in the Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated
by G.J.Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1970, p.225,
no.433.

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