s.l., Première moitié du 18e siècle - First half ou the 18th century, 87,5 x 32 cm or 34.45 x 12.60 assembled on vertical roll 132 X 36 cm or 51.97 x 14.17 inches ended with two sticks (one in bambou) and protected laterally by an line strip.
Ink on paper. Brush Chinese calligraphy autograph on Xuan paper, of Wan Shizen (Jinren; hao, Chaolin, Qidong waishi and al.) who is one of the artists of the group of the "eight eccentrics of Yangzhou". He is native of Shexian in the province of Anhui. Het was painting in Yangzhou before 1709 and lost the vision of an eye in 1739 and became completely blind in 1752. In large, calligraphy of the word Bambou which symbolizes uprightness and in smaller, poem in praised bamboo. Signature and seal of the artist. The paper of Xuan which comes from the "county" of Jin is one of the most expensive rice papers and its exceptional quality always attracted to him the favour of the artists and the Chinese calligraphers. Paper browned uniformly browned with here and there some minor stains. Cfr. The eccentric painters of Yangzhou, exhibition October 20 - December 15, 1990, China House Gallery, China Institute in America pp. 43 - 47.