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- Title
Die ehemalige Sammlung von Porträts verdienter Offiziere der Feldzüge des Qianlong-Kaisers (China, 18. Jahrhundert).
- Authors
WALRAVENS, HARTMUT
- Abstract
The paper describes the collection of portraits of military heroes from the Qianlong campaigns, formerly in the possession of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. Some of the pictures are now deposited in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg while the others are kept in an unknown location, possibly Moscow. 15 of the originally 16 portraits are known through old photographs that are still extant. The pictures are remarkable historical documents as they give real likenesses of the persons and show strong Western influence. The faces were painted mostly by Jesuit painters while the life-size body was done by Chinese court painters. The paper discusses the genesis of these portraits which were part of the imperial collection, describes the pictures and assembles biographical information on the heroes from historical sources.
- Subjects
CHINESE portraits; CHINESE art -- History; WESTERN influences on Chinese art; REIGN of Chien lung, China, 1736-1795; MILITARY personnel in art
- Publication
Baessler-Archiv, 2013, Vol 61, p125
- ISSN
0005-3856
- Publication type
Article