Légende
Hunting with birds of prey, Chinese hunting scenes, Newly invented Chinese, drawn with great difficulty and published, by P: Schenk Jun, third part, print, album page, ornamental print, Series number, 11, 12, Chinese landscape with two horsemen with a hunting or bird of prey on their hand. On the left two figures with a birdcage. Print is part of an album., printmaker: Pieter Schenk (II), Amsterdam, 1727 - 1775, paper, etching, height 161 mm x width 254 mm, landscapes in the temperate zone, Chinese, fowling, fowler, A detailed ink drawing shows a riverside scene with a multi-tiered pavilion set among rock formations and trees on the far bank, a stairway leading down to the water, and a distant mountain silhouette; several birds fly across the sky while two riders on saddled horses face each other near the water, one rider wearing a tall hat and holding a bird perched on the arm and the other wearing a conical hat with a bird perched on the hand; in the foreground two seated figures on the near bank gesture toward the riders and a cylindrical basket with an open top sits beside them, while rippling water and scattered rocks fill the space between the banks.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26B27_267
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
36.1Mo (6.8Mo) / 37.5cm x 24.1cm / 4426 x 2851 (300dpi)