This is a detail of a work which is actually 26 foot long. The scroll was painted by a Catholic Jesuit missionary. He became the court painter when the emperor saw this work, which is  painted on silk, and proclaimed it a masterpiece. These various figures and landscape elements are outlined in pen before they were painted. Objects in the background are smaller, as seen in Western art. Like many of China ’s greatest art works it was taken to Formosa where it is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei .