Imperial Portrait of a Prince

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Imperial Portrait of a Prince

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Date
c. 1775
Medium
Hanging scroll, ink, colors, and gold on silk
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
10483

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This painting is a life-size portrait of a Qing dynasty prince sitting on a red lacquer throne and wearing a dragon robe. Behind him is a screen richly decorated with nine dragons. Virtually every element of this painting symbolically represents the hierarchy of the Chinese court. Portraits of this scale, painted in exceptional detail with the finest mineral pigments on the most expensive silk, were typically hung in the great halls of the Forbidden City, the imperial palace in Beijing. The largest group of such portraits remains in the imperial collection itself, now in Taiwan. China, Asia

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Gift of funds from Louis W. Hill, Jr., David Bradford, Myron Kunin, and Bruce Dayton

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