Gallery Talk, Everlasting Contentment: Chinese Painting of the 18th Century

Xu Yang, Everlasting Contentment (detail), 1773 — Xu Yang, *Everlasting Contentment* (detail), 1773. Handscroll: ink and color on paper, jade core roller. Yale University Art Gallery, Bankers Trust Company Foundation Fund and the Karen Y. Wang Fund

The 18th century, which included the reigns of three Qing emperors, was an era of peace and prosperity in China. Join David Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, as he addresses the range of styles present in 18th-century Chinese painting, from painters active at the Manchu Court to the “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.”