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拍品专文
Yuan Yao was a professional painter in Yangzhou who worked in and continued the style of the studio of the popular painter Yuan Jiang (active ca. 1680-1730). Catering to the preferences of the city’s wealthy merchants who sought massive hanging scrolls and screens to fill their mansions, the Yuans created fantastic landscapes of precisely painted grand residences, using the ruled-line technique, set in dramatic mountains with swirling mist. These magical vistas at once evoked imperial palaces of past dynasties and legendary realms of immortals.
According to the current owner, this landscape was displayed in the “boiserie” study, which was decorated in Chinese style, of Villa Vitiano in the Tuscan countryside in Chianti since the late 19th century when it was owned by the Moriani family. The painting was sold by the Morianis with the villa’s furnishings to Raffaello Landini in 1953. When Mr. Landini’s son sold the villa and moved to Caracas, Venezuela in the mid-1970s, he had the painting restored and took it with him. When the Landini family moved to Miami in the early 1980s, they again took this landscape with them to their new home, where it has remained in their family.
According to the current owner, this landscape was displayed in the “boiserie” study, which was decorated in Chinese style, of Villa Vitiano in the Tuscan countryside in Chianti since the late 19th century when it was owned by the Moriani family. The painting was sold by the Morianis with the villa’s furnishings to Raffaello Landini in 1953. When Mr. Landini’s son sold the villa and moved to Caracas, Venezuela in the mid-1970s, he had the painting restored and took it with him. When the Landini family moved to Miami in the early 1980s, they again took this landscape with them to their new home, where it has remained in their family.