Detail of The Altan Khan’s Family
- Location
- Back Shrine of the Main Assembly Hall, Maidari-yin Juu, Inner Mongolia, China
- Date
- 18th century
- Photo Credit
- image after Zhang Haibin 張海斌. 2010. Meidaizhao bihua yu caihui 美岱召壁畫與彩繪– Mayidari juu-yin qan-a-yin jirugh kiged budaghtu jirumal [Wall paintings and painted motifs of Mayidari juu]. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2010, 98.
The painting depicts Altan Khan’s heirs: his third wife Queen Jönggen (1561–1612) and probably her third husband, Chürükhe (Altan Khan’s grandson from his first wife, r. 1586–1607).
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