White Gibbon

Title (Dublin Core): White Gibbon
Description (Dublin Core): Giuseppe Castiglione (Chinese name Lang Shih-ning) was a native of Italy. At the age of 19, he entered the Jesuit order as a novitiate. In addition to his religious training, he also studied painting and architecture. In 1715, he was sent to China, where he would spend the rest of his life as a painter in the Inner Court. He was a skilled painter of figures, flowers and birds, and especially horses and dogs. In this painting, a white gibbon sits on the root of cedar and next to red maple saplings. With one hand resting on its knee, the other scratches an itch in leisurely contemplation. The artist has not only succeeded in capturing the appearance of the gibbon, but also its disposition.
Creator (Dublin Core): Castiglione, Giuseppe
Subject (Dublin Core): Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, monkey, gibbon
Publisher (Dublin Core): National Palace Museum
Date Created (Dublin Core): unclear
Type (Dublin Core): Chinese painting styles
Format (Dublin Core): album leaf, ink and colors on silk, 151.2cm x 91.9cm
Identifier (Dublin Core): 故畫00095400000
Source (Dublin Core): https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=3646&Dept=P
Language (Dublin Core): Chinese (language)
Rights (Dublin Core): open access publishing

Item sets: Animals in paintings that Giuseppe Castiglione painted after arriving China