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	About us Historical Background List of Officers Fragment right: Officer Machang Fragment left: Officer Doubin a.o. Overview Officers on the Photo Literature		About Us Last updated in May 2012 --- The Qurman painting is presently exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the exhibition The Printed Image in China from 5 May – 29 July 2012. --- latest updates: - List of Officers: Fulu (1b2) added, photo taken from resurfaced Qurman painting - better image of the resurfaced Qurman painting uploaded, after restoration - Literature: four auctions with presumably fake portraits added - Literature: more Japanese literature, now in a seperate section - Historical Background: another sale (year 2000) of the red laquer panel 2.1 - Historical Background: another Taiping painting (no.9) and two 2nd East Turkestan   prints (no.8) added, sold at Christie's London, 10 May 2006 - Historical Background: present location of another 30 copper plates - Banner man painting of Zhang Zhiyuan, 2b19, offered at CG Beijing, May 21, 2011 - Banner man painting of Cemcukjab, 1b6, offered at Sotheby's HK, April 8, 2011 - Historical Background: Scroll 4 of "The Grand Review", sold 26 March 2011 - Historical Background: Painting 11.7., sold at Sotheby´s NY, 23 March 2011 - Historical Background: 10.5., Poly Auction Beijing, 12 April 2010, added --- The Qurman painting is presently exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the exhibition The Printed Image in China from 5 May – 29 July 2012. Earlier, in 2010, the painting was exhibited in the British Museum, London, in the exhibition The Printed Image in China, From the 8th to the 21st Centuries from 6 May – 5 September 2010. --- The Meritorious Officers Portraits on Chinese Television CCTV 4 Portraits of 64 officers + 8 Dörbed Series + 14 Turgut Series online (see List of Officers) Past exhibitions on this subject: 2009: Exhibition in the Louvre, Paris: Prints of Ideal China - When the Emperor Qianlong commissioned prints from Louis XV with catalogue 12 February - 18 May 2009 2007: The Museum of Macau / Museu de Macau 9th Sept. The Conquests of the Emperor of China 9 September - 2 December 2007 2005 / 2006: Exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, London: China: The Three Emperors, 1662—1795 12 November 2005 - 17 April 2006 2002: National Museums of Scotland The Qianlong emperor : treasures from the Forbidden City 1997 Hong Kong Museum of Art From Beijing to Versailles : Artistic Relations between China and France 28 April - 15 June 1997 --- We are an open group of international researchers. By chance we have gotten knowledge of a recent extraordinary discovery in Germany which has determined us to create this website. Everybody is most welcome to contribute to this website and thereby share knowledge on this issue. The subject matter is a resurfaced fragment, an original part from the left side of the famous painting Battle of Qurman from the great Chinese Emperor Qianlong from 1760 from the Hall of Purple Glaze. Up to now this painting was almost completely lost, only the right side of the original painting was known. Total size of the original painting Battle of Qurman: ca. 4 meter high x 8 meter width Fragment left: 68.6 x 105.5 cm; Fragment right: 388 x 366 cm The painting Battle of Qurman was ordered by the Qianlong emperor in the year 1760 as a coproduction between Chinese court painters and European Jesuit monks and was hanging together with other paintings in the Hall of Purple Lights, the Hall of Fame of the Chinese emperors. During the Boxer uprising 1900/1901 the Hall of Purple Lights was looted and most paintings are lost. From the original battle paintings only one single fragment was hitherto known, which is the right part of the painting Battle of Qurman in the archives of the Ethnological Museum of Hamburg. To explain the historical context of this subject we have put a few important articles from the last millennium on this website for download (see Literature). If you have any comments for us or you object to the downloads please send us an E-Mail to qianlong.research@163.com. In case you should not be able to read the Chinese characters on this website you must install them first under Windows XP. Please click START - System - Region Options - Languages and activate East Asian Languages. You need the Windows CD.		"He loaded his cannon on camels. People who heard their thunderous roar near and far submitted" China Marches West Peter C. Perdue p. 305