Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
Foreign Cemetery at Whampoa |
Place of Origin |
China, Canton |
Artist or Maker |
Sunqua or Youqua School, possibly |
Date |
c. 1850 |
Materials |
Oil on Canvas. Frame: Wood, Lacquer |
Dimension Details |
Height: 17 3/8" Width: 30 3/8" Stretcher perimeter Height: 17 3/4" Width: 30 5/8" Framed Height: 22 3/4" Width: 36 1/2" Depth: 2 1/8" |
Description |
This medium-high eye-level view depicts numerous western and Chinese vessels in the busy port of Whampoa beneath a cloudy sky. On the shore in the foreground, a winding path dotted with figures leads to a cemetery on a rise where dozens of white grave markers are situated on either side of steps. A cluster of buildings including a pagoda can be seen on a hill backed by mountains on the opposite shore. The painting retains its original Chinese black-lacquered, carved wood frame, and is possibly from the studio of Sunqua or Youqua. Sunqua, a Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty, was one of the best known of the Chinese artists in the nineteenth century producing pictures for the European market. Youqua was a Chinese port painter of great prominence in the mid-nineteenth century. |
Provenance |
Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc. Auctioneers, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, August 8, 1972, Lot 203 Purchased by The Dietrich American Foundation, 1972 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
6.4.1046-2 |
Search Terms |
paintings |