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Lang Shining
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Entertainment Scenes in Yuanmingyuan in Twelve Months, Yongzheng This is a group of works showing the daily life of Emperor Yongzheng, arranged in the order of 12 months in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The paintings are mainly landscape pavilions, and the architectural descriptions are delicate, including Chinese garden buildings and Western pavilions. Terraces and pavilions, and even those who combine Chinese and Western, the landscape of the picture may be created by the painter combining the architecture of Yuanmingyuan with his imagination. -
A Brocade of Spring Radiance In this painting is a mountain stream flowing down to where pheasants and decorative rocks are seen. By and on the rocks are various flowers, bamboo, and spirit fungi. The subject matter is auspicious for the start of a prosperous New Year and an allusion to the expression “A Brocade of Spring Radiance”－hence, the title of this painting. -
Xian'e Changchun Album - Chrysanthemum 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).