Storming the Camp at Mount Gadan 1769 Jacques Philippe Le Bas French This print illustrates a successful 1755 attack on an enemy camp near Mount Gadan by Kalmouk Ayusi, a Mongol who entered the service of the Qing.Part of a set of sixteen, "Storming the Campe at Mount Gadan" 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 prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets retained in Paris.The prints exemplify the fusion of Eastern and Western representational styles foster

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Storming the Camp at Mount Gadan 1769 Jacques Philippe Le Bas French This print illustrates a successful 1755 attack on an enemy camp near Mount Gadan by Kalmouk Ayusi, a Mongol who entered the service of the Qing.Part of a set of sixteen, "Storming the Campe at Mount Gadan" 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 prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets retained in Paris.The prints exemplify the fusion of Eastern and Western representational styles foster

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