What did the Qianlong Emperor look like? As ordinary people, the most common way for us is to understand through textbooks, or imagine the image of the Qianlong Emperor from some film and television works, and the Qianlong Emperor we see in film and television works is actually a big gap with himself, and the closest may be the history textbook, and the Qianlong Emperor in the textbook does not seem to look very good.
But there was an Italian Western painter who painted the texture of a star for the Qianlong Emperor. The Qianlong Emperor was the 6th emperor of the Qing Dynasty, born in 1711, he loved to learn from an early age, he was also very intelligent, among the many princes, he was the favorite one of the Kangxi Emperor, perhaps this is also a sign that he finally became the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and in 1736, with his excellent talent, he successfully became emperor.
In 1738, in order to properly manage the officials of the imperial court and maintain the approachable, just and honest officials, various means were adopted, and some coercive measures could only be taken against some chaotic party elements, 1745, which was the most obvious means of governance.
In addition to being very attentive to the governance of the officials of the imperial court, in terms of the culture and art of the country, it was also quite careful, in 1785 also arranged the compilation of the Siku Quanshu, in order to pass on the history of Greater China very well, compiled the "Great Qing Dynasty Unified History" and "Ming History" and other historical books, there are many excellent books and paintings from that era, which played a very important role in the development history of the entire China, it can be seen that the Qianlong Emperor attached great importance to this aspect.
For a good emperor, how can he not have a self-portrait of his own? Therefore, there are not many portraits of the Qianlong Emperor, while the Chinese painters are mainly freehand, and the picture is relatively flat compared to Westernization. There is a Western painter who longs for the life of the East, so he came to Daqing to play, he has a super high painting technology, and it is precisely because of this painting technique that he was appreciated by the court painters and recruited him into the palace.
Soon after entering the palace, the Qianlong Emperor knew of his existence, this painter became a red man around the Qianlong Emperor, he usually loved to paint, came to China, still did not forget his interest, in all the paintings, perhaps the Qianlong Emperor's self-portrait, this Western painter painted the most brilliant, but before the emperor did not see, after all, the painting is the emperor, the person who paints the emperor must get the emperor's approval, so the painting does not dare to take it out, afraid of being found by others to lead to the disaster of killing.
Today, we are fortunate to witness the beauty of this painting at the art museum in Yinchuan. From this painting, the three-dimensional sense is particularly strong, as if taking a picture, directly the appearance of the Qianlong Emperor fixed on the painting, and the preservation is also very good, from this painting, the Qianlong Emperor is still quite fashionable, wearing a mink coat, and then look closely, his facial features are very exquisite, many netizens have said that it is very much like a star, that is, Sun Haiying teacher, whether from the facial features or face shape, the two are very similar.
The emperor in traditional Chinese paintings is generally dominated by yellow, and the main color of this painting is black, perhaps this is the significant difference between Chinese painting and Western painting, as for the Qianlong Emperor is really so good-looking? We don't know how well the studio painted, and we have to admire the Western painter's painting skills, which also provides new evidence for researchers to understand the Qianlong Emperor.