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LANDSCAPE WITH EUROPEANS Colour on paper China, 18th century 130 x 38,5 cm A vertical scroll executed by a Chinese artist based on one or more European engravings. Over a background best described as a perspective view of European buildings stylized in a Chinese manner, are inserted a tall figure dressed in blue, possibly a priest, with a child holding a rosary and a shepherd leaning against his staff, obviously removed from a more bucolic original context. In the17th and 18th centuries, when various European artists, namely Jesuit priests, were present in the Imperial Court, and European images became available, some Chinese painters painted European scenes or adaptations of European subjects, as the present example. These paintings must have had a novelty value for their local patrons as “chinoiserie” images had for the Europeans of the period. |
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