ID: 700009399 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009399	Record Type: Conceptual

Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine (prints (visual works); various printmakers, under director: Charles-Nicolas Cochin ...; commissioned in 1765; engraved...)

Note: Set of sixteen prints commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-1759) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets retained in Paris.The prints exemplify the fusion of Eastern and Western representational styles fostered within the Qing imperial painting academy. The European technique of chiaroscuro-the modeling of forms through the use of light and shading-has been visibly tempered, as has the use of one-point perspective. Instead, the scenes present panoramic views and strongly up-tilt ground planes. At the same time, howevery, they reflect European preferences for anatomical accuracy, a single light source, and the mathematically correct reduction of scale to create the illusion of recession.

Titles:

Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine (preferred,C,U,IN,French-P,U,U)

The Conquests of the Emperor of Chin (C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: set

Work Types:

prints (visual works) [300041273] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: commissioned in 1765; engraved in France from 1767 to 1774

Creator Display:

various printmakers, under director: Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790); after reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing; commissioned by Emperor Qianlong [preferred]

printmakers Various (Unknown artist) [500398204]

supervisor Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, the younger (French engraver, draftsman, 1715-1790) [500021138]

commissioner (person who orders works) Qianlong, Emperor of China (Chinese emperor, 1711-1799) [500372572]

Locations:

Current: Not Applicable:

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: etching and engraving

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: various

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Chinese

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	victories [300374810]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities)) (AAT)

	Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia [901002051]
	.....((Chinese history, Asian history, Named Events)) (ICON)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

Sources and Contributors:
Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 20 March 2018
The Conquests of the Emperor of Chin	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 20 March 2018, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/395643

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 20 March 2018, transcribed https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/395643