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Edouard Chavannes
(5th Oct, 1865 - 20th Jan, 1918)
Qianling, sépulture de l'empereur Gaozong, tête de cheval ailé
9th Sep, 1907
Credit:
Photo (C) MNAAG, Paris, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image musée Guimet
Guimet Museum
http://www.guimet.fr/fr/
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Keywords:
tête (sculpture)
winged figure
site archéologique
history of China
head (animal)
sculpture (representation of)
site funéraire
horse
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About the artwork
Title:
Qianling, sépulture de l'empereur Gaozong, tête de cheval ailé
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
20th century
XXth century
Techniques:
silver gelatin dry glass plate negative
Dimensions:
90 x 60
Inventory number:
AP12603
Detail:
Titre original : [Shaanxi] Chàn-si. K'ien tcheou [Qianzhou], K'ien ling [Qianling], sépulture de l'empereur Kao tsong [Gaozong], mort en 683 ap. J.-C., de la dynastie T'ang [Tang], tête de cheval ailé. Mission Edouard Chavannes 1907. Photographie prise le 9/9/1907.
Location:
Guimet Museum
About the author(s)
Author:
Edouard Chavannes
Also known as:
Chavannes, Édouard
Born:
5th Oct, 1865
Dead:
20th Jan, 1918
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes
(5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's
Records of the Grand Historian
, the work's first ever translation into a Western language. Chavannes was a prolific and influential scholar who was one of the most accomplished sinologists of the modern era, notwithstanding his relatively early death in 1918 at only fifty-two years old. A…
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