ANONYMOUS Ladies and Boys, 17th/18th centuryANONYMOUSLadies and Boys, 17th/18th centuryInk and colour on paper depicting ladies and children on a terrace, framed. 112cm (44in) long x 204cm (80 1/4in) wide.十七/十八世紀 佚名 庭院嬰戲圖 設色紙本 木框裝裱Provenance: Lord Montagu, Kimbolton castle, CambridgeshireValérie Levesque, ParisA Spanish private collection, and thence by descent來源：Montagu勛爵，金博尓頓城堡，劍橋郡瓦萊麗·莱维斯克，巴黎西班牙私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今 The theme of 'boys at play' emerged as an offshoot of the 'one hundred boys' design. Paintings dated to the Qing dynasty depicting similar scenes of boys at play include an album, 'Children at Play', in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Genre Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2008, pl.57, together with a hanging scroll, 'Children Watching Their Images Reflected in the Water Basin', by Ding Guanpeng, ibid., pl.56.Compare with a large painting of ladies and boys, 18th/19th century, which was sold at Christie's London, 18 May 2012, lot 1085. See also a large 'hundred boys' painting, 18th century, which was sold at Sotheby's London, 11 May 2016, lot 128.is_parse: 20230413image: yuzhan_bonhams_item.jpgsold_price_type: £