The Qianlong Emperor

Former TitleChinese Potentate

Artist François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1739 - after 1796)

Artist After Giuseppe Panzi (Italian, 1733 - 1812)

Dateca. 1776

MediumEngraving

DimensionsImage: 4 3/4 × 6 3/16 inches (12.07 × 15.72 cm)
Sheet: 9 9/16 × 6 3/4 inches (24.29 × 17.15 cm)

Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman

Object numberF83-40/44

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Exhibition History

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 20, as Chinese Potentate.

Faces from China’s Past: Paintings for Entertainment and Remembrance, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 28-December 9, 2012, no cat., as Chinese Potentate.

Faces from China’s Past: Paintings for Entertainment and Remembrance, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1-September 15, 2019, no cat., as Chinese Potentate.

Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by August 5, 1983;

Given by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1983.

Published References

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 7.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 289, as Chinese Potentate.

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