When Attiret, who had been an artist at the court of Emperor Qian Long, painted the forty scenes, he gained a deep knowledge of this famous garden. In 1743 he wrote a letter to Paris in which he described in great detail the scenery he had seen there.
他在一七四三年寄回巴黎的一封長信中，詳細描述了圓明園的景緻。