YUAN MEI (1716-1797), YOU ZHAO (18TH CENTURY) AND WANG GONG (18TH CENTURY)

YUAN MEI (1716-1797), YOU ZHAO (18TH CENTURY) AND WANG GONG (18TH CENTURY) Yuan Mei and His Female Students Handscroll, ink and colour on silk 41 x 302.5 cm. (16 1/4 x 119 in.) Inscription indicates that the portraits were painted by You Zhao and the rest by Wang Gong One seal of Wang Gong Inscribed by Yuan Mei with an identification of each figure, dated the first year of the Jiaqing era (1796) with eight seals Thirty colophons by students of Yuan Mei with a total of fifty eight seals Frontispiece by Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802) with two seals