AFTER QIAN GU (QING DYNASTY)

AFTER QIAN GU (QING DYNASTY)
PURIFICATION AT THE ORCHID PAVILION

A Chinese scroll painting, ink and colour on silk, inscribed and dated the gengzi year, signed Qian Gu, with an artist's seal, 103cm x 40.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Jean Brediam (d.1949), who was the Director General of the Municipal Services of the French Concession in Shanghai until 1940. In 1946, he returned to China and was appointed the Head of the Shanghai office of the French Economic Mission.

錢榖（傳） 蘭亭修契圖 設色絹本 立軸
題識：蘭亭修契圖，庚子暮春之初畫於磬室山堂，錢榖。
來源：Jean Brediam收藏（逝於1949年）。他曾擔任上海法租界市政總署署長，直至1940年。1946年，他再次返回中國，並被任命為法國經濟使團上海辦事處負責人。