Artist: Ding Guanpeng 丁觀鵬 (1708 - 1771)

Chinese Calligraphy Couplet, Cursive Script

Gold on Silk, Horizontal Axis Album Panels, Long Hand scrolls

Painting (Sight): EACH Panel, Length: 56 cm, Width: 53 cm

Dated: In The Winter Month of Ding Chou Year, of Qianlong Emperor's Twenty-Second Years of Reign Period (1757)

Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Artist's seals



Provenance: The Exceptional Collections of Lieutenant General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 (1911 - January 9, 1994), Courtesy Name: Dingwu 定武, Spouse: Madame Wu Peiqi 吳佩琪 (Wu Peifu's 吳佩孚's younger sister). Cai Wenzhi born in Huanggang County, Hubei Province (Xinzhou District, Wuhan City). Graduated from the ninth period of the Whampoa Military Academy and the thirteenth period of the Army University. Lieutenant General of the National Revolutionary Army.

The collections of General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 presented and offered up to auctions from Lot-97 to Lot-157



ARTIST BIO:

Ding Guanpeng 丁觀鵬 (active 1708-1771) was a Chinese painter who lived during the Qing dynasty.A native of Beijing, he was active from the later part of the Kangxi era (1661-1722) to the middle part of the Qianlong era (1735-1796). At one point he studied oil painting under Giuseppe Castiglione. He was noted for painting people and landscapes. He spent about 50 years in the Palace Painting Academy and drew nearly 200 pieces.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition. Natural imperfection on the medium (paper or silk), regardless from any major damages; includes light blooms, discoloration and minor fading. Consider normal due to the ages. Frame with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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