River and mountain landscape after Guo Xi. Hanging scroll. Ink and light colour on paper. Inscription, dated cyclically xinhai (1791), signed Lian jushi Gongshou lin and sealed ...
River and mountain landscape after Guo Xi. Hanging scroll. Ink and light colour on paper. Inscription, dated cyclically xinhai (1791), signed Lian jushi Gongshou lin and sealed Pan shi shen fu. Colophon, signed Wenzhi ji and sealed Wang Wenzhi yin and Ceng jin cang hai, collector's seal: Qianyi tang yin, Tao Cheng zang zhang and one more seal.
68 x 32.8 cm
The close relationship between Pan Gongshou and Wang Wenzhi is evinced by the numerous collaborative works by the two artists. Most of their collaborations feature the paintings of Pan Gongshou accompanied by Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy. (see also Contag, Victoria and Wang Chi-ch'ien, Seals of Chinese Painters and Collectors of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods, Hong Kong 1966, p 447)
In his signature the artist uses the word "lin", that describes a special method of copying in which a kind of "loose copy" was made from the original painting.
潘恭壽/王文治（款） 山水 設色紙本 立軸
款識：陸治倣郭熙林屋洞天圖 蓮居士恭壽臨 鈐印：潘氏慎夫
釋文：文治記 鈐印：王文治印、曾經滄海
藏印：謙益堂印、套成藏章、另印漫漶不清
來源：德國私人收藏，20世紀80年代購於 Georg L. Hartl, Klassische Asiatika（亞洲古典藝術）
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, acquired in the 1980s at Georg L. Hartl, Klassische Asiatika, Munich