AFTER CHEN JUE (13th century) Song of Everlasting SorrowAFTER CHEN JUE (13th century)Song of Everlasting SorrowInk and color on silk, laid onto board and framed, the signature inscribed in gold reading Chen Jue, with four collectors' seals. 56 x 26 3/4in (142.3 x 68cm)陳玨 (款) 長恨歌詩圖 設色絹本 木板鏡框款識：陳玨Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chang Hen Ge) is a 120 line poem written by the poet Bai Juyi (772-846) in the year 806 or 807, and it narrates the tragic love affair between Emperor Xuanzong and his consort Lady Yang during the tumultuous An Lushan rebellion (755-763). The blue/green mineral pigments applied to this painting are an archaism and an additional reference to Tang dynasty (618-907) painting aesthetics. This scroll bears a signature of Chen Jue, from Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) Hangzhou, who rose to become a painter in residence (daizhao) at the Imperial Painting academy in the year 1253. Stylistically, the painting reveals the influence of Qiu Ying (1494-1551/1552), and it was most likely painted in Suzhou in the 17th/18th century, where there existed an industry of painters creating apocryphal copies of early paintings for a thriving market for antiques. Several of these "Suzhou copies" were of such high quality they entered the Qing Imperial collection.