{"product_id":"giuseppe-castiglione-one-hundred-horses-wading-by-a-leaning-tree-chinese-painting-art-print","title":"Giuseppe Castiglione — One Hundred Horses (Wading by a Leaning Tree) | Chinese Painting Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorses of every coat, chestnut, white, dapple grey and brown-and-white piebald, wade across a pale river; some are in up to their backs, one shows only its head above the water, and a groom sits on a horse among them in midstream. A rider on a white horse waits on the bank at left, and in the foreground a brown-and-white horse with a long white tail stands at the water's edge beside a gnarled leaning tree. Green reeds and sandy banks lead back to misty hills, with grey mountains at the upper left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe handscroll was painted in 1728 for the Yongzheng emperor by the Jesuit missionary Castiglione, who worked at the Qing court under the name Lang Shining. It joins Western realism, with foreshortened horses, volumetric shading and a high horizon, to Chinese brushwork and unpainted silk. A brush sketch for the composition, made around 1723 to 1725, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: handscroll, ink and colours on silk, 1728; National Palace Museum, Taipei.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766) was an Italian painter, born in Milan, who joined the Jesuits as a lay brother in 1707 and reached Beijing in 1715. Known in China as Lang Shining, he served the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors, painting in a fusion of European and Chinese manners, and rose to official rank at court. His One Hundred Horses was painted in 1728 for the Yongzheng Emperor, and he designed the European-style palaces of the Old Summer Palace. 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