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The Hanlin Academy (between 1744 and 1745)
Painting by Jin, Kun 金昆 (1662 -1746) , Sun, Hu 孫祜 , Lu, Zhan 盧湛 , Wu, Yu 棫 , Zhang, Qi 張琪 and Cheng, Liang 程梁 ,
Calligraphy by Li Zongwan 勵宗萬 (1705-1759), Ji Huang 嵇璜 (1711-1794) and Zhang Zhao 張
(1691-1745)
Ink, Silk, Heightened with colour
1.9 x 6.2 meters
Gift: Société des Amis du musée Cernuschi, M.C. 9484 ©Musée Cernuschi

Installation of the mingqi in the « Salle Robert Rousset », Musée Guimet, 1978
@ Musée Guimet RMNGP
Philanthropy was a family tradition for the Roussets. His paternal Krishna and the gopis of India (MA 3351), a terracotta votive plaque
uncle Robert Rousset (1901-1981), his mentor and in 1934 the head representing an Indian deity (MA 3342), a Southeast Asian baluster
of the gallery of the Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, had set the vase (MA 3562), a remarkable set of seventy-five Chinese mingqi
example through the many gifts he made as early as the 1920s to the from the Wei and Han dynasties (MA 4651 - 4726), a terracotta turtle
Musée Guimet in Paris and which continued in 1971, 1974 and 1978, from the Han dynasty (MA 13113), a stone torso of a woman from
giving rise to the "Salle Robert Rousset". Located in the rotunda Madhya Pradesh 10th and 11th century (MA 4727), a magnificent
on the 2nd floor, this space was specially and carefully fitted out to Khmer stone torso from the Baphuon from the 11th century
accommodate the hundred or so pieces given, including a statue of (MA 4728) and a Khmer stone statue of the bodhisattva Lokesvara
Avalokitesvara from Nepal-Tibet (MA 3343), a painting representing (MA 4985).

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