Estimate

20.000 - 30.000

Session

8 May 2026

Description

China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong reign (r. 1735-1796), Chinese edition, last quarter of the 18th century

Depicting scenes from the campaigns against the Jinchuan, set in a fortified mountainous landscape with numerous figures in combat, stone watchtowers (diaolou) and defensive walls

One print with military encampments and stockades in the foreground, the imperial troops advancing upon fortified positions

The other with a more rugged mountainous terrain dotted with towers and defensive structures, showing episodes of assault and siege

The upper margin of each sheet bearing an extensive Chinese inscription corresponding to a poem by the Qianlong Emperor commenting on the military episodes depicted, followed by an impressed imperial seal

The original compositions executed by European missionary artists at the Beijing court, among them Giuseppe Castiglione, Jean-Denis Attiret, Ignaz Sichelbarth and Giovanni Damasceno Sallusti, the prints of this Chinese edition produced in Beijing by Chinese engravers trained by the Jesuits

In reddish-brown wood frames, with white paper mounts

(Age-toning to the paper, minor staining and foxing)



《平定金川战图》铜版画一对，中国，清乾隆年间（1735-1796），中国版，十八世纪末。绘金川战役山地攻防场景，城寨碉楼林立，上方刊乾隆御题诗并钤御玺。原稿由郎世宁、王致诚、艾启蒙、潘廷璋等宫廷传教士画家绘制，此中国版由耶稣会士培训之京师刻工镌刻。

51x88 cm