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- Artist
- Unknown (Chinese)
- Title
- Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Guise of Guanyin
- Date
- early 20th century
- Period
- Qing dynasty (1644-1912); Guangxu period (1875-1908)
- Medium
- Ink and colors on silk mounted as a hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- 50 x 25 1/2 in. image
- Credit
- Walter A. and Dorothy Jones Frautschi Endowment Fund, Ineva T. Reilly Endowment Fund, and Earnest C. and Jane Watson Endowment Fund purchase
- Accession No.
- 2016.3
- Classification
- Paintings
- Geography
- China
Related
Commissioned from the artist by Reverend Isaac Taylor Headland (1859-1942), thereafter by decent within his family; 2016, sold by Alan Kennedy (Santa Monica, CA) to the Chazen Museum of Art
- Headland, Isaac Taylor. "Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People." New York: F.H. Revell Co., 1909. pp. 89-91, unnumbered pl. facing title page
- Yuhang Li. “Painting Empress Dowager Cixi as Guanyin for Missionaries’ Eyes,” Orientations vol. 40, No. 6 (November/December 2018): 50-61. pp. 51, 54, no. 1, 7
- Empresses of China's Forbidden City: Peabody Essex Museum, 8/18/2018–6/23/2019
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