Prisoners Presented to the Emperor 1767-74 Louis Joseph Masquelier French The Qianlong Emperor is shown here enthroned atop the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City. Members of the imperial retinue flank the axial way, where kneeling prisoners are preceded by an official who holds out a bag with the head of the resistance leader Khoja Jihin.Part of a set of sixteen, "Pioneers Presented to the Emperor" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prin

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Prisoners Presented to the Emperor 1767-74 Louis Joseph Masquelier French The Qianlong Emperor is shown here enthroned atop the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City. Members of the imperial retinue flank the axial way, where kneeling prisoners are preceded by an official who holds out a bag with the head of the resistance leader Khoja Jihin.Part of a set of sixteen, "Pioneers Presented to the Emperor" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prin

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