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Xian'e Changchun Album - Peach Blossom

Title: Xian'e Changchun Album - Peach Blossom
Description: This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the imperial gardens, and all of them appear to have been meticulously arranged. The placement of the main and subsidiary subjects is also rendered perfectly and the coloring gorgeous, making this work a masterpiece synthesizing the best of Chinese and Western painting traditions.
Creator: Castiglione, Giuseppe
Subject: Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, flower
Publisher: National Palace Museum
Date Created: between 1722 and 1735
Type: Chinese painting styles
Format: album leaf, ink and colors on silk, height: 33.3 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.8 cm (10.9 in)
Identifier: 故畫00122200002
Source: https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=4955&Dept=P
Language: Chinese (language)
Rights: open access publishing

Item sets: Animals in paintings that Giuseppe Castiglione painted after arriving China; Celebrating the Year of the Horse: the treasure of a Qing Court Jesuit Painter