Art Review: Gentlewomen of the Forbidden City: The Power, the Intrigue, the Clothes
12:06pm PDT - September 20th, 2018 little women - The New York TimesA large portrait of the dowager empress Cixi, painted by the American artist Katharine A. Carl and given as a gift to President Theodore Roosevelt. Cixi commissioned the portrait to burnish her reputation abroad after supporting the anti-foreign Boxer Rebelli…