One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters
In the opera boom of the late nineteenth century, albums were turned to a new purpose: documenting the variety and vibrancy of stage culture in all its multicolored splendor. This album records in detail the makeup and costume of one hundred characters drawn from nine plays. Each character is identified with an accompanying inscription, and the plays are named at the top right of nine of the leaves in slightly larger script.
Artwork Details
- 無款 清末 京劇一百人物像 冊 絹本
- Title: One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters
- Artist: Unidentified artist
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: late 19th–early 20th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Album of fifty leaves; ink, color, and gold on silk
- Dimensions: Image (each): 10 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (26.4 × 21 cm)
Overall (each leaf): 12 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. (32.7 × 23.8 cm)
Overall (each double leaf): 12 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (32.7 × 47.6 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
- Object Number: 30.76.299a–xx
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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