Xian'e Changchun Album - Cherry Apple & Magnolia

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Title
Xian'e Changchun Album - Cherry Apple & Magnolia See all items with this value
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. Selected for exhibit here are the fourth leaf on the subject of crab apple and magnolia blossoms along with the sixth leaf rendering yellow rose and bleeding heart blossoms. The signature on this album done in Sung-script style suggests it was done by Giuseppe Castiglione sometime between his arrival in China around 1715 and the early Ch’ien-lung reign (1736-1795). See all items with this value
Creator
Castiglione, Giuseppe
Subject
Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, flower See all items with this value
Publisher
National Palace Museum
Date Created
between 1722 and 1735 See all items with this value
Type
painting
Format
album leaf, ink and colors on silk, height: 33.3 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.8 cm (10.9 in) See all items with this value
Identifier
故畫00122200004 See all items with this value
Source
https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=4957&Dept=P See all items with this value
Language
Chinese
Relation
Xian'e Changchun Album - Chrysanthemum
Rights
NO COPYRIGHT, open data, the National Palace Museum has released images in the "Collection Database" and "Selected Image Downloads" sections for free and unlimited use.
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
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Xian'e Changchun Album - Cherry Apple & Magnolia

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Xian'e Changchun Album - Chrysanthemum Image

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Chinese painting Lang Shining flower bird