A Chinese school painting with a view of Praia Grande bay and Macau's outer harbour
A view looking northward from the Penha area across the Praia Grande sweeping away to the right, with Penha Hill in the left foreground, showing a.o. the Governor's Palace/Macau Government Headquarters (Palácio do Barão do Cercal) built in 1849, the Church of St. Paul (Igreja de São Paulo) in a representation before the 1935 fire, the American flag and several Portuguese flags, one of them flying above Fort Monte (Fortaleza do Monte) with the church São Domingos beneath, the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady (Igreja da Sé), rebuilt in stone after the typhoons of 1847/48, and presumably the Church of São Francisco, in its state before its destruction in 1861, at the point of the bay. The waters of the bay with Chinese and Western vessels and merchant boats at anchor, a sailing ship and a steam-powered ship flying the Red Ensign, the merchant flag of the United Kingdom, and a junk. Oil on canvas, backed. Wooden frame.
66 x 111 cm
晚清約1860-1865年
外銷畫澳門南灣全景
布本油畫 木框
來源: 德國哥達 Heinrich Schmid 私人收藏 ，於 1865 年左右從馬尼拉帶來
德國南部私人收藏，二十世紀八十年代購於巴西 （傳），此後由其家族傳承
Provenance
Private collection Heinrich Schmid, Gotha, who brought it with him from Manila around 1865
Private collection, Southern Germany, according to the consignor acquired in Brazil in the 1980s, and thence by descent
Literature
Vgl. eine Darstellung der Bucht Praia Grande im Museu do Oriente, Lissabon, Portugal, "A vista of the Praia Grande Macao"