Fans of Chinese Painting

Zhang Jing [Chang Ching] (paintings dated 1671-1704)

“Mountain Torrent” 1690

Folding fan, ink and color on gold-surfaced paper
54.2 x 18.0 cm. (21 3/8 x 7 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Ting; Zhang; Jing

Yang Jin [Yang Chin] (1644-1728)

“Tao Yuanming” 1715

Folding fan, ink and color on paper
17.5 x 54.0 cm. (6 7/8 x 21 1/4 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Yang Jin; Jiashen (1644)

Published:
Jiaojiezhai cang Ming Qing shanmian shuhuaji, Shanghai, 2009, p. 113.

Zheng Xie [Cheng Hsieh] (1693-1765)

“Blossoming Plum” 1734

Folding fan, ink on paper
19.0 x 56.0 cm. (7 1/2 x 22 in.)

Artist’s seal’s:
Zheng Xie zhiyin and one other

Niu Zhen [Niu Chen] (paintings dated 1747-1793)

“Mountain Retreat” 1780

Folding fan, ink and color on gold-surfaced paper
16.5 x 50.8 cm. (6 1/2 x 20 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Niu Zhen; Yuanxi

Collector’s seal:
Langhuan xianguan

Hongwu [Hung-wu] (d. 1811)

“After the Poetic Conception of Ni Zan” 1796

Folding fan, ink on paper
16.5 x 49.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Yaohua (“the beauty of jade”); youqing (“taking pleasure in purity”); youyou zhushi (“the recluse who is drunk and behind-the-times”)

Published:
Duoyunxuan cangpin, Shanghai, 2005, p. 339.

Xi Gang [Hsi Kang] (1746-1803)

“Spring Rain on Apricot Blossoms”

Folding fan, ink and color on paper
16.5 x 54.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)

Artist’s seal:
Xi Gang

Collector seals:
Danzhong jingjian; Ermao xinshang

Wang Lin (paintings dated 1787-1819)

“Birds & Flowers in the Wu Garden” 1802

Folding fan, ink and color on paper
17.3 x 51.4 cm. (6 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)

Artist’s seal:
Chunpo

Li You [Li Yu] (1783-after 1844)

“Fighting in the Village” 1843

Folding fan, ink and color on paper
17 x 50.5 cm. (6 5/8 x 19 7/8 in.)

Artist’s seal:
Li