Kiai-tseu-yuan houa tchouan
Subtitle: Les enseignements de la peinture du Jardin grand comme un grain de moutarde; encyclopédie de la peinture chinoise
By: traduction et commentaires par Raphaël Petrucci, augmentés d'une préface, d'un dictionnaire biographique des peintres et d'un vocabulaire des termes techniques; illustrés d'environ cinq cents gravures.
Contributors: Petrucci, Raphaël, 1872-1917.; Chavannes, Edouard, 1865-1918.; Li, Liufang, 1575-1629.; Shên, Hsin-yu, fl. 1677.; Li, Yu, 1611-1680?; Wang, Gai, fl. 1677-1705.
Publisher: H. Laurens
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 519
Subjects: Painting, Chinese.; Painters -- China.
Other titles: Encyclopédie de la peinture chinoise.
Work titles: Chieh-tzŭ-yüan hua-chuan.
Notes: Edited by É. Chavannes, after the death of the translator.

First published in 4 collections or series (1st ser., in 1679; 2d and 3d, in 1701; and 4th, in 1818) The plan of the work was developed by Shên Hsin-yu from an album prepared by Li Liu-fang and the first three series were edited by Shên with the help of Li Yü, who also contributed the introduction to the 1st ser. Wang Kai and his brothers, Wang Shih and Wang Nieh, were chiefly responsible for preparing the commentaries and reproducing the plates from famous masters. The 4th ser. was largely the work of Ting Kao.

Contains the first three series.