PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS SHEN ZHIZHOU (LATE 19TH CENTURY)Garden Scene in Moonlight Folding fan mounted as a hanging scroll, ink and colors on mica paper, inscribed by the artist with a dedication, signed Shiru Shen Zhizhou, with an artist's seal. 20 1/4in (51.4cm) wide 沈稚周 遊園圖 設色雲母箋 扇面立軸 十九世紀末 款識：綠章夜奏通明殿，乞借春陰護海棠。仿六如居士畫意於集思廣益之軒，彝范仁兄大人正繆，石如弟沈稚周 Published: Suzuki Kei, prehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings Vol. 2 Tokyo, 1982, E10-005. 出版： 鈴木敬，《中國繪畫總和圖錄》卷二，東京，1982年，圖錄編號E10-005 Extant paintings by Shen Zhizhou, possibly a native of Suzhou, are few. Another of his painted folding fans with similar palette, techniques and setting, depicting the Yuan dynasty scholar painter Ni Zan (1301-1374) washing a Paulownia tree with two servants in a garden is in the collection of The Yangzhou Museum, on view May 15-August 2, 2021 in the exhibition Shanshui Xianglian: Nanjing Dushiquan Gonggong Bowuguan Cang Shuhua Lianzhan 山水相連：南京都市圈公共博物館藏書畫聯展 (Connected Landscape: Joint Exhibition of Calligraphy and Paintings from Public Institutions in Nanjing Metropolitan Circle) at the Nanjing Museum. The inscription is, in part, two lines from a four-line poem by Lu You (1125-1209), one of the important poets of the Southern Song dynasty, translated as: "I love the flowering Chinese crab apple as my life. I fret that it might be damaged by the strong sun. I pray that the weather be cloudy, so that the blossoms may linger." (translation by Elizabeth Hammer). The inscription alsoments that it is painted in the style of Tang Yin (1470-1523), a late-Ming master from Suzhou and dedicates the painting to his elder brother Yifan. Yifan appears to be the art name of Chen Fan (1860-1913), a native of Mt. Heng in Hunan Province and the owner of the newspaper Su Bao 《蘇報》 after 1900.