In the Style of Ye Hang (1816-1884), Two Daoists Making an Experiment, China, dated 1852. Framed under Glass, 117 x 28 cm, ink and light colors on paperSignature: "In the summer of the renzi year (1852), Ye Hang." One seal of the artist: "Zhenran". Ye Hang, also known as Zhenran, was a monk painter from Xinghua in Jiangsu province. Instead of studying the sutras he did paintings and seal carving. In 1844 he went to Yangzhou. He was especially admired for his unusual figure painting - Property from an old German private collection, mostly assembled in the 1970's - Minor traces of age