Ancestral Portrait: Female in Manchu Court Costume / Artist Unknown, China
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- Accession Number
- 2002/1.218.2
- Title
- Ancestral Portrait: Female in Manchu Court Costume
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Medium and Support
- ink, color and gold on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1875-1920
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Dimensions
- 117.1 cm x 56.3 cm (46 1/8 in. x 22 3/16 in.)
- Century
- late 19th - early 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- figure painting
- Physical Description
- This is a portrait of a Manchu woman in her semiformal costume.
- Subject Matter
- Though the woman in this painting wears a Manchu court costume, she is likely not of Manchu descent since she lacks the three earrings worn in each ear by Manchu women. Her costume is semiformal (jifu), meaning it is without necklaces, piling, surcoat, and court hat. The long blue vest that she wears over? the robe has a square badge depicting a flycatcher; this signifies that her husband is a ninth-rank civil official. It is not known whether the red robe with golden dragons was common among the wives of lower ranking officials. The portrait is painted on paper rather than the silk more commonly used in ancestral portraits; it is also smaller.than typical Qing court portraits. The carefully rendering of shadows and volume in the face may reflect the influence of the technology of photography in the late Qing court.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1318 x 2880
- File Size
- 505 KB
- Record
- 2002/1.218.2
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"Ancestral Portrait: Female in Manchu Court Costume; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2002-sl-1.218.2/2002_1.218.2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
