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Japan: 'A Chinese Beauty', painting by Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795).

Japan: 'A Chinese Beauty', painting by Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795).

Maruyama Ōkyō was a Japanese artist of the Edo Period who specialised in painting in a traditional Chinese style combined with Western elements such as perspective. This features in 'Portrait of a Chinese Beauty' with the use of reflection (albeit rather inaccurately rendered) in the mirror.

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