Beauties

Chinese Collection

Accession Nr.:	63.57.1
Type:	painting; costumes
Artist/Maker:	Zhang Danzhuang (?)
Date of production:	End of the 18th century Qing dynasty
Place of production:	China

Marks:	Name of Danzhuang and two seals.
Materials:	silk
Techniques:	ink
Dimensions:	width: 22.3 cm length: 30.2 cm

The term album painting refers to the East Asian genre of small sized, un-mounted pictures. Thematic groups of paintings are arranged in series and collected bound together in volumes or folded leaflets. The first sheet depicts two ladies in elegant costumes of the Ming period. See the second and third album paintings: inv. nos. 63.58.1 and 63.59.1.

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