FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF FRENCH DIPLOMAT HENRI HOPPENOT前法國駐華外交官亨利·奧普諾舊藏 LOT 247
Anonymous (15th Century)
Portrait of a Ming Dynasty MandarinInk and colour on silk, framedAnnotation signed Hua Cheng, with two seals of the artist Dated yiyou year of Emperor Chenghua's reign (1465)156 x 104.5cm (61? x 41?in)
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Provenance:Private Asian collectionLaurent de Rummel, Collection Jacques Malatier, 10 October 2018, lot 90Mes Binoche et Godeau, Succession of Mr. Ambassador and Mrs. Henri Hoppenot, 9 April 1991Note: Henri Hoppenot (1891-1977) served as the secretary at the French legation in Beijing from 1933 to 1937. He was considered, to those who knew him, a particularly courteous and cultured man, "(who had) a passion for art and literature, and an almost religious devotion to culture." He was a great art connoisseur in his own right, and as seen in the sale of his private collection on 9 April 1991 by Parisian auction house Binoche et Godeau, his interest in culture spanned a wide range of subjects from the works of Picasso and Modigliani to sculptures by Alexander Calder to Far Eastern paintings and works of art. 明 佚名 一品文官常服像 設色絹本 鏡框華誠題識款識:??魁梧乎,其器???乎,其心?蚤,蜚英於桂殿,夙?姓於??。進則著卓魯??績,有以康濟乎斯民;退則踵廣受之芳躅,有以表率乎後人。誠賜時之瑞鳳,實盛之世祥麟。概英?兮,竟?覩遺像。?????獲雲之有子,而衍慶於??也耶。侯姓鄭,諱?????????華冑,由科目歷仕明??馳聲?????,以???家。厥子鄉貢進士?,與予同遊太學,同事地官,將以拜瞻遺像,景仰英風,敬作贊以遺後昆。時成化元年龍集乙酉(1465)新正之旦,鄉貢進士舜江華誠拜贊。鈐印:淡而不厭、孟贊來源:亞洲私人收藏巴黎,Laurent de Rummel拍賣行,《雅克·馬拉蒂爾私人珍藏》,2018年10月10日,拍品編號90巴黎,Mes Binoche et Godeau拍賣行,《亨利·奧普諾夫婦珍藏》,1991年4月9日註:亨利·奧普諾(1891-1977),法國外交官,一九三三至三七年駐任北京總領事秘書。據其友人回憶,奧氏彬彬有禮,且涵養深厚,「鍾愛藝術及文學,並對文化孜孜不倦」。奧氏身故後,夫婦二人的收藏於一九九一年四月九日在法國巴黎Mes Binoche et Godeau拍賣行釋出,藏品包羅廣泛,從畢加索、莫迪利亚尼及亞歷山大·考爾德到東亞藝術,本幅亦在其中,充分體現奧氏對世界藝術的興趣與熱誠。