Horse

Details

HAN GAN (706-783) AS CATALOGUED IN SHIQU BAOJI
Horse
Handscroll, ink and color on silk
12 ½ x 15 1/8 in. (31.9 x 38.4 cm.)
Colophon by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) with two seals
Colophons by Zhang Xi (1465-1487); Wu Kuan (1435-1504), with two seals;
Yang Yiqing (1454-1530), with one seal; and Cui Xi (1478-1541), with two seals
Seventeen collectors’ seals, including twelve of Emperor Qianlong ,one of
Emperor Jiaqing (1760-1820), two of Song Luo (1634-1714)
Titleslip by Song Luo

Literature

Emperor Gaozong, Shiqu Baoji Chubian, reprint, National Palace Museum,
Taipei, 1971, p. 951. (described as "superior quality")
Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, 1972, no. 18.

Lot Essay

Shiqu Baoji Chubian was frst drafted in February of the ninth year of the
Qianlong reign (1744), and then completed the following year. According to
the painting, Qianlong inscribed it in jiashen year (1764), an indication that he
had inscribed it many years after the completion of Shiqu Baoji Chubian.

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