Balance Master
Pu-Qua, Dadley
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-5531/40
- Author
- Pu-Qua Dadley
- Name
- Balance Master
- Date of creation
- late 17th – early 18th c.
- Country
- China
- Culture
- Far East
- Technique
- etching watercolour embossing
- Material
- Indian ink paper
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 29.3 x 24.4
Additionally
- Type
- album sheet
- Genre
- genre art
- Provenance
- Purchased from a private individual
- Exposition
- Zolochiv Castle (Chinese Palace)
Information about author
Information about author
Object description
The man is depicted in full face. He is wearing brown trousers, and a blue shirt girded with a belt. The man's right arm and shoulder are unclothed. The man is wearing light grey quilted fabric boots and black fabric shoes. His head is shaved. The man is balancing on his right leg, holding a blue ceramic object with a yellow ornament in his raised right hand. The man's left leg is bent at the knee and lifted. The etching comes from the album "Chinese Customs and National Costumes", which includes 60 images of Chinese people engaged in various activities. An explanation in German accompanies each image; some are written in French. In the eighteenth century, artists in Canton (Guangzhou) in southern China created such paintings for Europeans seeking to learn more about China and its people.
Inscriptions
In the lower left corner is a calligraphic inscription in Indian ink, "Pu-Qua. Canton. Delin.". In the lower right corner is an inscription, "Dadley. London. Sculpt". In the upper right corner is the number "40".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
