# Schildering van drie westerlingen

- By: Zhang Rulin
- Date: 1738
- Medium: ink, dye, silk
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 122.6 cm x width 101.5 cm x width 125 cm x depth 6.5 cm x weight 2 kg
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Mrs Heybroek, 1987)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1410--bd922cac8945f0f92b19a74153e86d59)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/382b062db5e5de994eb5fa6795dd4198.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The devil hunter Zhong Kui in European dress. China, 1783. Signed Zhang Rulin of Minzhong. Ink and colours on silk. A European print was clearly employed as the basis for the depiction of this subject. The Chinese called Westerners 'red-haired devils'. That is probably what gave the artist the idea of portraying this Chinese exorciser of devils, Zhong Kui, as a European. Paintings of the devil hunter accompanied by one or two demons were made especially to be shown at new year. Bats and peaches ? symbols of goodluck and long life ? are always featured in these pictures.