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ANONYMOUS (LATE 18TH CENTURY)
Figure in a Garden
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
75 1/4 x 25 3/8 in. (191.1 x 64.6 cm)
£20,000-30,000 US$26,000-39,000
€22,000-33,000
Two other paintings from this series were exhibited in Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe
1500-1800, Victoria and Albert Museum, 23 September-5 December 2004, published in the associated
catalogue: (Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer ed., Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800,
V Press, 2004, pp. 212-3, 382, pl. 16.12). In the accompanying essay Anna Jackson, Keeper of Asia at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, states she believes the paintings relate to an imperial twelve fold screen,
painted by Giuseppe Castiglionne (1688-1766). There are also marked similarities in this depcition of
the figure in the present lot and a portrait of the Yongzheng Emperor, painted as part of an album of
costume portraits, 1723-5, showing the emperor in various guises (Palace Museum Beijing). As with the
Yongzheng portrait, the figure depicted in the present lot is shown in European dress augmented with
traditional Chinese accessories. While the wig, sleeves and cape are all European in cut and style, the
elaborate beading and pendants hanging across the figures chest are definitively part of Chinese dress.

清中期 無款
洋風人物
設色絹本 立軸
兩幅來自同系列洋風人物畫2004年在倫敦維多利亞阿伯特博物館《Encounters》特展展出，出版於Anna Jackson 及 Amin
Jaffer 編《Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800》維多利亞阿伯特博物館出版社, 2004年，212-3及382
頁，圖16.12。

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