Artist · 8 prints
Giuseppe Castiglione Prints
About Giuseppe Castiglione
Giuseppe Castiglione, known in China as Lang Shining (郎世寧), was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan in 1688 and became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus. He arrived in China in 1715 and worked in Beijing as a court painter under three Qing emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Under the Qianlong Emperor he also designed European-style buildings for the Yuanmingyuan gardens. He died in Beijing in 1766.
Castiglione is known for combining European methods with Chinese media and formats, and for naturalistic paintings of horses, dogs and court subjects. His handscroll One Hundred Horses was completed in 1728 for the Yongzheng Emperor and is held by the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds his ink draft for this scroll, datable to 1723 to 1725. His painting Emperor Qianlong on Horseback, dated 1758, is in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The National Palace Museum in Taipei also holds his Ten Prized Dogs series, painted for the Qianlong Emperor.
Giuseppe Castiglione prints: reproductions of the Qing court paintings of dogs and horses by the Italian Jesuit painter Lang Shining. The collection includes sections of One Hundred Horses (1728), such as Resting on the Plain, Sparring Horses by the Lake and Wading by a Leaning Tree, and paintings from the Ten Prized Dogs, including Shanxing Wolf, Tawny-Yellow Leopard and Cangni, a Tibetan Mountain Dog.
Our selection focuses on the animals of the Qing imperial court: named hunting dogs shown as single portraits, and herds of horses grazing, playing and wading in open landscape. The works show his mix of European shading and Chinese brushwork on silk.
The dog portraits suit hallways, studies and living rooms, and the horse scenes suit living rooms and offices. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
