att-youqua-or-studio-fl-1840-1870-the-great-wall-of-china
Lot 320
att. Youqua or Studio (fl. 1840-1870), The Great Wall of China
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, presented in a later frame, unsigned.

Stretcher 12.5 x 28 3/8 in.

Depicting travelers along the Great Wall based likely on drawings by Lt. John Bradley Wood of the 31st Regiment of Foot.

See Martyn Gregory Catalogue 97, Images of the East: Historical pictures by Chinese and Western Artists 1750-1950, 2017 - 2018, no. 96, for a similar version of this painting.

Surface grime and stable craquelure; several tears and holes to canvas; stretcher marks; two patches to verso.

$5,000 - 10,000