Category:Recueil Historique de Principaux Traits de la Vie des Empereurs Chinois

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Recueil Historique de Principaux Traits de la Vie des Empereurs Chinois 
Chinese album of paintings on silk illustrating "The Emperor's Mirror, Illustrated and Discussed" with French captions
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Titled “Recueil his-torique des principaux traits de la vie des empereurs de la Chine,” these unsigned albums bear testimony to the various ways in which the Sino-European textual and visual exchange materialized. Bound in leather in the late eighteenth-century European manner, the volumes contain a title page, a brief preface, and ninety-four Chinese paintings on silk with an equal number of narrative captions on the facing page. All the French texts are handwritten in black ink on white paper and set within a red frame to simulate a printed page. The painted leaves are framed by blue silk damask and accompanied by a cartouche with the four-character Chinese titles of the Dijian tushuo. Unlike the woodblock prints of the Dijian tushuo, the detailed and colorful paintings of the “Recueil historique” are the products of a careful anonymous hand attributable to an artist working in the Qing courtly tradition [after Paola Dematté (2016) "A Confucian Education for Europeans", The Art Bulletin, 98:1, 63-64, DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2015.1074845]

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