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Zhang Feng (active 1628-1668) โ€” Zhang Feng, Landscape
Zhang Feng (active 1628-1668)

Zhang Feng, Landscape

This fan leaf painting by Zhang Feng exemplifies the literati landscape tradition of the Ming and Qing dynasties, executed in ink and color on luxurious gold paper. The intimate scale of the fan format, combined with the precious gold ground, demonstrates the work's intended status as a refined collector's object for scholarly connoisseurship. Zhang Feng's compositional approach and brushwork reflect the scholar painter's engagement with earlier masters while maintaining a distinctive personal vision characteristic of his active period in the mid seventeenth century.

Medium
ink and colour on gold paper, fan leaf

๐Ÿ”จ Auction Lot

Painting and Calligraphy on fans from the Xiao Wan Liu Tang Collection ๆ‰‡ๆตทโ”€ๅฐ่ฌๆŸณๅ ‚่ˆŠ่—ๆ˜Žๆธ…ๆ›ธ็•ซๆ‰‡้ข

October 16, 2024

Estimate: $120,000 โ€“ $240,000

Lot 7045

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Zhang Feng (active 1628-1668), Zhang Feng, Landscape

This fan leaf painting by Zhang Feng exemplifies the literati landscape tradition of the Ming and Qing dynasties, executed in ink and color on luxurious gold paper. The intimate scale of the fan format, combined with the precious gold ground, demonstrates the work's intended status as a refined collector's object for scholarly connoisseurship. Zhang Feng's compositional approach and brushwork reflect the scholar painter's engagement with earlier masters while maintaining a distinctive personal vision characteristic of his active period in the mid seventeenth century.

Medium
ink and colour on gold paper, fan leaf
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Ming-Qing transition, Contemplative, Ink and wash on silk, Scholar aesthetic, Mountains and water, Chinese Artist, Hanging Scroll, Landscape, 17th Century, Literati Painting

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