Rare album of ink and color paintings on paper, depicting equestrian scenes in a lake landscape on a mountainous background. Bears the apocryphal signature of Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) with red stamp. Bears apocryphal Qianlong stamps and Manchu inscriptions. CHINA, Qing dynasty or later. 455 x 39 cm (unfolded, including 10 painted plates) (very nice freshness of the colors, some small accidents). Note: "Born in Milan in 1688, Giuseppe Castiglione studied painting, entered the Society of Jesus as a novice in 1707, before being sent to Portugal in 1710, to prepare himself to join the Chinese Mission. He joined the Mission in 1715, and was entrusted with the task of introducing the Palace painters to Western painting, a function he retained until his death in 1766, in the service of the three great emperors of the first half of the Chinese-Manchuan Qing dynasty, Kangxi (1661-1722), Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong (1736-1797). His style is a synthesis of Western oil painting and Chinese ink painting, and left a considerable body of work in its diversity and quality, having become one of the favourite artists of the Qianlong Emperor. Very well integrated into his adopted environment, he is known in China as Lang Shining. Qianlong had commissioned Castiglione-Lang Shining to immortalize by portraiture (often life-size) on silk scrolls the horses given to him by courtiers and tributary princes."