Qing Dynasty
清朝皇后
the last dynasty · three paintings
It begins with a marriage alliance between a small northeastern confederation and the Mongol cavalry it could not conquer China without, and it ends on 12 February 1912 with a woman signing an abdication that closed two thousand one hundred and thirty-two years of imperial government.
In between: the longest reign in Chinese history, the most powerful monarch in the world in his lifetime, two Opium Wars, a civil war that killed perhaps twenty million people, the burning of the Summer Palace, and forty-seven years of rule by a woman who had entered the palace as a fifth-rank concubine.
The Group Painting
Ten anchored sections, from the Mongol noblewomen who founded the dynasty to the empress who died in a prison cell in 1946.
The empresses of the Qing 清朝皇后
One painting · ten sections
On this silk
- Erdeni Bumba
- Empress Xiaohuizhang
- Empress Xiaochengren
- Empress Xiaozhaoren
- Empress Xiaoyiren
- Empress Xiaojingxian
- Empress Xiaoxianchun
- Empress Xiaoshencheng
- Empress Xiaodexian
- Empress Xiaozheyi
- Empress Dowager Longyu
- Empress Xiaoduanwen
- Consort Donggo
- Empress Xiaomucheng
- Empress Xiaoquancheng
Painted Alone
Two women in the Qing were given paintings of their own.
More
- Before The Ming — the Manchus entered Beijing six weeks after the last Ming emperor died on Coal Hill.
- Where it started Empress Lü Zhi — the first woman to hold this title.
- The whole collection All 205 empresses
Bring the Qing era home
Canvas prints, scarves, puzzles and more — from $14.
Two full-color hardcovers — 217 empresses, 413 painted characters.
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