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TWO EUROPEANS

Ink and colour on paper
China 17th century
87 x 154 cm


Rare large format painting of two European figures with musical instruments in an Eastern varandah.The Chinese linear convention is used together with the European technique of “chiaroscuro” to convey a suggestion of volume to the figures and objects.
 
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