Produced by Dave Morgan, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: 1. There is one instance each of Huang Yin-Piau and Huang Yin-Piao, and Yün Shou-p'ing and Yün Chou-p'ing so they have been left as printed. * * * * * CHINESE PAINTERS CHINESE PAINTERS A CRITICAL STUDY BY RAPHAEL PETRUCCI TRANSLATED BY FRANCES SEAVER WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY LAURENCE BINYON OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN DUOTONE NEW YORK BRENTANO'S PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BRENTANO'S _All rights reserved_ THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS NORWOOD · MASS · U·S·A * * * * * PREFACE A translator can have but one aim--to present the thought of the author faithfully. In this case an added responsibility is involved, since one who had so much to give to the world has been taken in his prime. M. Petrucci has written at length of art in the Far East in his exhaustive work _La Philosophie de la Nature dans l'Art d'Extrême Orient_ and elsewhere, and has demonstrated the wide scope of his thought and learning. The form and style in _Peintres Chinois_ are the result of much condensation of material and have thus presented problems in translation, to which earnest thought has been given. In deference to the author's wish the margin has not been overladen and only a short tribute, by one able to speak of him from personal knowledge, has been included, together with a few footnotes and a short bibliography of works of reference indispensable to the student who will pursue this absorbing study. The translator takes this opportunity to make grateful acknowledgement of her debt to the authors named, who have made such valuable information available, and to those friends who have read the manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. FRANCES SEAVER * * * * * BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE