The American painter Hober Vos, who was a portrait of Empress Cixi in 1905, described her appearance like this: "The appearance of the Queen Mother deeply attracted me. A real person is absolutely different from a photo."
Photo: Cixi in the Summer Palace
70-year-old Cixi lived in the Summer Palace and was fascinated by his last portrait before 40 p0 _h1 br5h122 h1 1
There is a portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi in the Deheyuan Theatre of the Summer Palace in Beijing. Unlike the photo, the Empress Dowager Cixi in this portrait looks only about 40 years old.
This portrait is the last portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi painted with a brush during her lifetime. Its author is the Dutch Dutchman Huashi Huber, and the only one who painted the portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi Foreign male painter.
In 1905, Huashi came to Beijing. This was his second trip to Beijing. This trip was due to the fact that Empress Dowager Cixi was very satisfied after seeing the portrait of and decided to let Huashi paint a portrait of herself.
Huashi's duty is like this, painting 4 days in Xiyuan, the remuneration is 13,000 taels of silver. In order to paint the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi, Huashi made many efforts, such as preparing all painting supplies in advance.
Soon, an official came to Huashi’s residence and said that the queen mother was ready to paint.
"(Queen Empress Cixi) sits on a chair with a beautiful waist, showing strong willpower. She has a kind and beautiful face, and I immediately like her."
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This is the first time Huashi met the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Maybe Huashi didn't know it. At this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi was 70 years old. Even though she enjoyed the highest standard of living in the Qing empire, the Empress Dowager Cixi was already very old at this time, and there was no beauty at all.
Empress Dowager Cixi pays great attention to her own image, he ordered the translator:
strong The eyes should be enlarged, the lips should be full, the corners of the mouth should be upward, and the eyebrows should be straight. Also, try to draw as young as possible. "
Hua Shi's painting skills are superb, and he used the high level of Hua Shi to complete the demanding requirements. After finishing painting the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi and sending it to the Queen Mother's Imperial View, Empress Dowager Cixi was very happy.
After completing the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi, Huashi also painted another picture based on the photo of Empress Dowager Cixi. The scholar brought back home.
According to the data, there were 6 oil portraits in the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and Hua Shi’s painting is undoubtedly the most exquisite one. img _p10 p10p
Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi from the Freer Art Museum Collection
Portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi 69:
Fair skin, clear eyebrows, like a 29-year-old beauty
1sp, this is an oil painting portrait. It was painted by American female painter Carl in 1904 when Cixi was 69 years old. It is 4 meters high and 2 meters wide. It is the largest of the four remaining Cixi portrait oil paintings in the world today, and the only one by a foreign female painter. Painted paintings.
Empress Dowager Empress Empress Cixi (partial)
wearing a coral shawl decorated with a cloud fairy and a hand-painted . Pearl bracelet and emerald ring.
According to Carl's memoirs, Cixi is very satisfied with this painting that exaggerates youth.
Empress Dowager Empress Cixi (partial)
, it is said that Cixi’s true image is kept secret.
At that time, the wife of the American ambassador, Conger, persuaded Cixi to show her beautiful image to the world, and recommended the then popular American female painter Carl to paint for Cixi. Cixi was finally moved.
In 1904, Karl completed the painting, and then transported the painting to St. Louis, USA to participate in the 1905 World Expo. Many visitors admired Cixi's beauty, but many people wondered about this "69-year-old Oriental beautiful woman": What rejuvenation did she take to make herself so young?
Portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi (partial)
Empress Dowager Cixi:
Real people and photos are never the same
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The Empress Dowager of the Empress Dowager in the photo was expressionless and not angry with her own authority. It is hard to imagine that this was the actual ruler of China in the late Qing Dynasty.
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The staff of the Clean Room Rehabilitation Committee of the Republic of China counts the old objects in the palace one by one for investigation, registration, writing, posting, registration, and photography.
The Queen Mother of the Qing Dynasty (painted by Stephen Reed) "The Little Parisian" December 23, 1900
0 span _p10 Gong, they accidentally found a group of photos of Empress Dowager Cixi. After brushing the dust off the box, carefully opening the dusty packages, Cixi's long-lost face appeared in the depths of the palace again.It is not the "Gongxun Picture" that has been retouched in every possible way, but a real image of a Qing palace queen mother.
She is finally old, and even the bags under the eyes and wrinkles are clear.
The Little Parisian, a portrait of Cixi painted by Hu Bo Huashi, USA, December 23, 1900
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Among those harem beauties who watch the "Gong Training", the young Cixi must have stood there. Faced with the virtues of the concubines of the past generations, she did not know how to feel. Cixi likes to watch dramas, but she herself has always been the protagonist of Gongdou drama. lonely deep in the palace,If a woman wants to realize her own value, she can only find ways to mutilate and trample on the same kind, otherwise, her fate will be exactly the same as the queen of Wanli.
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precious characters,It is the number of the palace. The inventory staff at that time numbered the palaces in the text sequence of " Thousand-Character Wen", "Heaven and Earth Yuanhuang, the universe...", such as Ganqing Palace as "天", Kunning Palace It is "land", the south study is "yuan", the upper study is "yellow", and so on. "Zhen" is Jingyang Palace.
The number written in Chinese characters under the "zhenzi" is the number of each cabinet or box of items. Under this number, each item also has a semicolon, written in Arabic numerals.
There are as many as hundreds of photos of Cixi discovered this time, some are framed, and some are equipped with exquisite yellow satin brocades, which shows the exquisite preservation at the time and the pairing of Cixi in his later years. The fascination with photography.
Empress play Avalokitesvara, from left: Four Princess, Empress, Li Lianying
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According Princess Deling recalled that Empress Dowager Cixi first saw some photos she took in Paris.I just like taking pictures. It was 1903. De Ling followed his father Yugeng , who was a diplomat, and returned to Beijing after living in France for four years and became Cixi's first maidservant. She brought a lot of new breath to the palace, and Cixi at that time also became open.
Fashion is a way to keep her age. She said to De Ling: "As long as it is fresh, I would like to try it, especially this kind of things that outsiders won't know." The photo shows her sitting in a sedan chair, preparing to go up.
From that photo, we saw a variety of images of Cixi, some sitting on a dragon chair, some boating on the lake, some pretending to be Guanyin, all around Flower plants. The solemn and tranquil atmosphere in the photo seemed so tranced and blurred in the stormy late Qing Dynasty.
That is the last years of Cixi. She can no longer produce a photo to prove her beauty when she was young. The veranda painting boats and beautiful costumes could not conceal her old age, let alone the vicissitudes and exhaustion of the Qing empire.
those picturesque sceneries,It's just a reflection of this empire. Empress Dowager Cixi on
foreign postcard, 1901
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once for the Empress portrait The American female painter Katharine Carl wrote a book after returning to China, called With The Empress Dowager of China, literally translated as "With the Empress Dowager of China", Forbidden City Press was published in 2009, and changed its name to " An American Female Painter's Memory of the Qing Palace." In this book, the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1903 presents such a face:
"The Queen Mother is well-proportioned, with slender and beautiful hands and well-maintained. Her face is well-shaped and her ears are well-shaped. Black. The hair is like lacquer, neatly and smoothly combed into a unique hairstyle. A wide forehead, curved eyebrows, bright and energetic eyes, and very penetrating eyes. The nose is high and straight, which is what the Chinese call "noble." Nose shape. The upper lip is firm and decisive, the big and beautiful mouth shape is extremely dynamic, the white teeth are revealed when smiling, and the lower jaw is relatively wide without any exaggeration. All of this looks charming. If I didn't know her in advance. Nearly 69 years old, she will definitely think that this is a middle-aged woman of about 40 years old who is good at maintaining...Additionally, the color matching of clothes and accessories is very harmonious, which makes her face more radiant and radiant. At the same time, the queen mother_ span6span is another person with keen observation ability and insight,Therefore, the temperament is extraordinary and has a strong personality charm. ”
The empress dowager and the emperor died (the remains of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu are in the Wanshou Palace) November 29, 1908
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0 span The American painter Hua Shi Hu Bo described Cixi’s appearance in his letter:
"The appearance of the Queen Mother deeply attracted me. I have seen a picture of her taken by a Japanese photographer in Beijing. This photo was sent to the ambassadors of European governments in Beijing, but was later banned from circulation. I borrowed it from the young Dutch ambassador (Jonkheer Van Citters), and my impression of the Queen Mother is limited to this. Only now I discovered that real people are absolutely different from photos. She sits upright, showing a strong will, even wrinkles with deep meaning, and her brows are full of love and the pursuit of beauty.
Hu Bo, 50 years old that year, even said: “I fell in love with her at first sight.
The two American painters have returned home when they wrote the words above. Their words are therefore more credible than court officials who are proficient in flattery. They say the most. The shocking sentence is: "A real person is never the same as a photo."
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photo claims to be the world's most accurate Copy.
A photo is more like a mirror placed in time, which can reflect a person's face far away, even infinitely far away, but the image it transmits is also only images of things, not the things themselves.
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Empress Dowager concubines and the temple, Group photo with eunuchs and court ladies
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Empress Cixi took a photo with the foreign minister's wife at Le Shou Tang in the Summer Palace
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