Lot 1208: LAN YING (1585-AFTER 1664), CHEN YUYIN (ACTIVE CIRCA 1651-1654)

Lecturing to Peaches and Plums with the Curtain

A set of twelve continuous hanging scrolls, mounted as two six-fold screens, ink and colour on silk
Each scroll measures 187 x 50.8 cm (73 5/8 x 20 in.)
Entitled and inscribed by Lan Ying, signed: Xihu Waishi Lan Ying
Two seals of Lan Ying: Lan Ying Zhi Yin, Tian Shu
Dated eighteenth day, sixth month, renchen year (1652)
Dedicated to Master Wen on his birthday
Inscription states that this painting was completed by Lan Ying and Chen Yuyin

Note:
Chen Yuyin was a pupil of Chen Hongshou. He worked on a painting with Chen Hongshou and his fellow students on a painting in 1651 (see Chen Chuanxi, Chen Hongshou di Shengya ji Yishu - The Life and Art of Chen Hongshou, Zhejiang Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1992, p 79). That painting, Wendao tu, is housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing (Chen Chuanxi, ibid., p.84 note 34), and is listed and Weng Wange, Chen Hongshou-His Life and Art, Shanghai Renming Meishu Chubanshe, 1997, vol.2, p.194, and illustrated in vol. 3, pl. 132. A second painting, Wahsing the elephant, executed by Chen Yuyin and dated the eleventh year of the Shunzhi era (1654) is house in the Tianjin Municipal Museum (see Zhongguo Gudai Shuhua Tulu, Beijing, 1992, vol.9, no.7-0065, p.245).
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(US$296,800-387,100)