Lot 11: Attributed to Huang Jun 1775-1850 , Landscape After Wang Meng hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

depicting three scholars seated under three ancient pines on a plateau above a spring, set in a rocky landscape with dramatic crags in the distance, contrasting with a pavilion under the shade of further pines among rockwork in the foreground, with an inscription which may be translated: On a lofty plateau we sit together and cleanse our clothes of the dusty world, Swish, swish, the breeze in the pines enters the far-off coppice. My ambition is among lofty mountains and flowing streams, Who knows what person can truly understand the essence of the qin? in the xinchou year, the three days before the beginning of the ninth month. [Painted] in the style of Huangho shanjiao (Wang Meng). Huang Jun from Yuanho , bearing a seal hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

measurements note 49 1/4 by 22 3/4 in., 125 by 58 cm

Chinese Paintings from the Henricksen Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, 5th September 2002 - 23rd February 2003, cat. no. 15, illustrated.

Acquired 16th October 1966.

PROPERTY FROM THE HENRICKSEN COLLECTION