Material: Pine wood frame, Acrylic shield on art print. Frame Width: 101cm (39 6/8in) Frame Hight: 67cm (26 3/8in) Frame thickness: 4cm (1 9/16in) Frame color: black+silver Net weight: 4.2kg (9.2lb)
Painting Story: Qianlong Emperor was the King of China back in the 18th Century. This ruling class comes from the Manchurian ethnic group. Mounted archery skills was seen as a high value thing in their custom, so the royal family will hold a 'Hunting Season' yearly to carry forward all those horse back skills as a tradition. This painting was painted by the royal painter Giuseppe Castiglione to record the moment that Qianlong Emperor shooting a hare in the Nanyuan hunting event.
Historical Information: The painter had good accuracy in drawing out the standard shape horseback bow of Qing Dynasty. This 'Qing Style' bow had became the most distinctive symbel of Chinese archery equipments, which differenciate from the bow shape in other historical periods of China and other cultures in the world. Not only for the horseback bow, the same shape was also applied in the longer size infantry war bow. It seems bow shapes had officially unified by this Dynasty manufacturing standard.
