Knickknack peddler

Inscription: No artist's inscription, signature or seal

Colophon

Li Zuoxian 李佐賢 (1807–1876), 8 columns in standard script, datable to 1867; 1 seal:

此頁無款，屬耿信公舊藏。按明《嚴氏書畫記》有蘇漢臣 《嬰戲貨郎》 八軸，余所見宋人 《嬰戲貨郎圖》 亦不一而足。此圖或即漢臣筆，或係當時轉相摹倣者，皆未可定，必求其人以實之則鑿矣。石泉翁時年六十有一。 [印]: 李佐賢印

Collectors' seals

Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1687)
信公珍賞
公
丹誠
真賞
宜爾子孫
琴書
珍秘 (half seal)
都尉耿信公書 (half seal)
千山耿信公書 (half seal)

Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (17th–18th c.）
會侯珍賞

Li Zuoxian 李佐賢 (1807–1876)
李佐賢收藏書畫之印

Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (己千, C. C. Wang, 1907–2003)
季遷心賞

Unidentified
汪囗慈收藏書畫之印

Frank Caro Co. , New York, by 1959; [ C. C. Wang Family , New York, until 1973; sold to MMA]

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Song and Yuan Paintings: Exhibition of Newly Acquired Chinese Paintings," November 1, 1973–January 20, 1974.

London. British Museum. "Song and Yuan Paintings," November 7, 1975–January 4, 1976.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Children to Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art," August 9, 2018–January 3, 2021.

Goepper, Roger, and Tseng Yu-ho. 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei (1000 Years of Chinese Painting). Exh. cat. Zurich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1960, p. 247, cat. no. 24a.

Fong, Wen C., and Marilyn Fu. Sung and Yuan Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973, pp. 65–65,77,142, cat. no. 8.

Cahill, James. An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編 (Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings: vol. 1 American and Canadian collections) Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982, p. 9, cat. no. A1-022.

Burn, Barbara. Metropolitan Children. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 96.

National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院. Haiwai yizhen: Huihua: zaixu 海外遺珍: 繪畫. 再續 (Chinese art in overseas collections: painting III). Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1990, p. 52.

Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 294, pl. 63.

Li Zuoxian 李 佐賢. Shuhua jianying 書画鑑影 (Notes on calligraphies and paintings). 1871, juan 12. Reprinted. Reprinted ed., Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1999, pp. 11b–12a.