Lot 234 郎世寧（1688-1766）畫派　清宮洋装仕女圖　設色紙本　鏡框六屏　十八世紀 | SCHOOL OF GUISEPPE CASTIGLIONE (LANG SHINING, 1688-1766)

郎世寧（1688-1766）畫派　清宮洋装仕女圖　設色紙本　鏡框六屏　十八世紀 | SCHOOL OF GUISEPPE CASTIGLIONE (LANG SHINING, 1688-1766)

Qing Court Ladies in Western Dress, 18th century

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Qing Court Ladies in Western Dress, 18th century
Set of six portraits, ink and color on paper, mounted, framed and glazed, unsigned and absent artist seals.
69 x 17 5/8in (175 x 44.8cm), the largest
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 8 June 2000
Portraits of court ladies in Western-style dress following this particular format appear originally to have constituted a set of at least twelve compositions, with versions executed on both paper and silk. The present lot comprises six distinct compositions: Lady with a fan, Lady watching goldfish, Lady playing with a puppy, Lady feeding a white parrot, Lady holding a pomegranate, and Lady with a child chasing butterflies. A seventh composition is represented by lot 233 in the present sale, depicting a Lady fingering prayer bead.
The Royal Ontario Museum preserves paintings corresponding in composition to lot 233 (accession no. 2020.49.4; fig. 1), as well as to Lady watching goldfish (2020.49.1; fig. 2) and Lady with a fan (2020.49.3; fig. 3) from the present lot. The museum also holds two further compositions from the series, respectively depicting a Lady admiring fruits in a glass vessel and a Lady with a child picking grapes, bringing the number of known compositions to nine. Two further paintings of the same type were offered at Poly, Beijing, on 6 June 2016 in its sale of , lot 7533. One follows the same composition as Lady feeding a white parrot in the present lot, while the other depicts a Lady holding a flower basket, representing a tenth known composition. Bonhams, New York, also offered a painting from the series on 21 July 2020, lot 31, depicting a Lady leisurely watching cats at play, constituting an eleventh composition.
Across these eleven known compositions, the ladies' coiffures, costumes, together with the architecture and furnishings, reveal a distinctive fusion of Chinese and Western elements, entirely in keeping with the cosmopolitan taste of the Qianlong period. The prototypes for this series of hanging scrolls depicting court beauties may even have originated in paintings intended for the decoration of the Summer Palace.
郎世寧（1688-1766）畫派　清宮洋装仕女圖　設色紙本　鏡框六屏　十八世紀
紐約中國瓷器公司，2000年6月8日
此一製式的洋裝仕女圖原應至少有一組十二幅，紙本、絹本版本俱有。本拍品共六式，包含：持扇納涼、側倚觀魚、閑庭撫犬、逗喂雪衣、坐捧榴實、携童逐蝶。除此，本場拍品233號又為一式，繪仕女倚石捻珠。皇家安大略博物館藏有與拍品233號（藏品編號2020.49.4， ）及本拍品中「側倚觀魚」（2020.49.1，）、「持扇納涼」（2020.49.3，）構圖相同的仕女圖，該舘更另藏兩幀，分繪仕女賞玩「玻璃果器」及「携童摘果」，至此已見九式。此外，北京保利於2016年6月6日「宮廷藝術與重要瓷器、玉器、工藝品」專場釋出兩幅此類製式的仕女圖（拍品7533），其一與本拍品中「逗喂雪衣」稿本相同，另一則繪仕女手持花籃，「細嗅花香」，是為第十式。本拍場於2020年7月21日亦曾上拍一幅該系列的「閑觀貓戲」（拍品編號31），是為第十一式。綜觀此十一幅，仕女妝容服飾、庭院建築風格及陳設，均有中西合璧之趣，頗合乾隆一朝風尚。此組美人條屏所本，或曾用於圓明園之裝飾亦未可知。