The Battle of Qoš-qulaq
Benoit Louis Prevost French
after Giuseppe Castiglione Italian
(direxit) Charles Nicolas Cochin II French
Not on view
This print shows the 1759 battle
The Battle of Qoš-qulaq
Benoit Louis Prevost French
after Giuseppe Castiglione Italian
(direxit) Charles Nicolas Cochin II French
Not on view
This print shows the 1759 battle of Qoš-qulaq during which the Khoja were defeated. Qing officers on horseback instruct their cavalry and archers on horseback chase enemy horsemen.
Part of a set of sixteen, "The Battle of Qoš-qulaq" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engr