ATTRIBUTED TO ZHAO MENGFU (YUAN/MING DYNASTY)

ATTRIBUTED TO ZHAO MENGFU (YUAN/MING DYNASTY)
RIDER AND HIS SERVANTS

A Chinese painting, ink and colour on silk, depicting a figure on horseback accompanied by two servants, one of whom carries two boxes, with an artist’s seal which reads Zhao Shi Zi Ang (Zhao Mengfu, court painter under the Yuan dynasty), 33cm high, 51cm wide.

Provenance: from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, 1871-1949.

Exhibited: Peintures chinoises anciennes, Paris, Musée Cernuschi, 1912, no.130.

Published: Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956, pp.410-411.

Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322) was a Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan dynasty. He was a native of Wuxing and has been honoured as an early master within the tradition of the literati painters who sought personal expression rather than the representation of nature. In calligraphy, Zhao Mengfu rejected the brushwork of his era in favour of the cruder style of the Jin and Tang dynasties. In his early years, Zhao Mengfu studied the style of the Song dynasty emperor Gaozong, but later turned to the styles of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, in the end studying that of Li Yong. His regular script is considered one of the top four greatest in Chinese history.

趙孟頫（款）遊騎圖

設色絹本 立軸

來源：Adolphe Stoclet (斯托克萊1871-1949）收藏。

展覽：Peintures chinoises anciennes, 法國巴黎賽努奇博物館, 1912年, 編號130。

出版：Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956年, 頁410-411。