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Subject:Re: What are these Chinese paintings?
Posted By: rat Wed, Jan 18, 2017
not ancestor paintings despite the superficial similarity, these instead are contemporary versions of Qing imperial portraits, such as those of the young Qianlong emperor and his primary wives by the Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione, eg:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/45/38/ae/4538aec67309c4dc78ca2e7960e44692.jpg
or this portrait of the Kangxi emperor:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/eb/a4/2c/eba42c526e37dd3e8577afd66e5d1cbf.jpg
no commercial value
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