Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan

The painting series Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan depicts historically recognized vistas in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China. In 1744, the Qianlong Emperor commissioned a set of forty paintings from two court artists, Shen Yuan and Tangdai, and a calligrapher, Wang Youdun.[1] The paintings, currently in the collection of Bibliothèque nationale de France, are among the few remaining visual records of the Yuanmingyuan prior to the sack by French and British troops in 1860.[1] Twenty-four out of the forty garden scenes depicted in paintings were lost in the destruction of 1860, the remaining scenes have been lost over time since then.[2]

Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan
Year1744
LocationFrance
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References

Footnotes
  1. Li, Lillian. "The Garden of Perfect Brightness – 1: The Yuanmingyuan as Imperial Paradise (1700-1860)". MIT Visualizing Cultures. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  2. Wang Daocheng (2005) in "Should Yuanmingyuan Be Rebuilt?", People's Daily Online

Sources
  • For 40 scenes in reduced size reproduction, and Chinese language comments about the original park activities, see Yuan Ming Cang Sang (Circling Brightness Has Dark Green Mulberry Trees) = ISBN 7-5039-1010-0, 1991, Beijing, Wenhua Yishu Chubanshe (Culture & Art Publisher).
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