id: 123021 accession number: 1943.278 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.278 updated: 2023-03-22 14:07:57.840000 Standing Buddha, AD 400s. Northern India, Sarnath, Gupta Period, 5th Century. Sandstone; overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.278 title: Standing Buddha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 400s creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 499 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Sarnath, Gupta Period, 5th Century technique: sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Evolution of the Buddha Image opening date: 1963-05-07T04:00:00 Evolution of the Buddha Image. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-June 30, 1963). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942). --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: at least by 1942–43 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1943– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Sarnath is located near the ancient city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River and is identified as the place where the Buddha gave his first teaching. During the 5th century, artists developed a new and consistent way of rendering the Buddha wearing a plain robe that clings to the body, without interrupting the beauty of its contours. Detailing is confined only to the edges of the garment and the halo, with its scalloped and beaded border. Here his right hand is held down in the gesture of gift-giving. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 15, p. 23; Reproduced: cat. no. 15, p. 43 url: Hollis, Howard. “Three Indian Buddhist Sculptures.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 31, no. 3, 1944, pp. 33–37. page number: Mentioned: pp. 33–34; Reproduced: p. 37 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141113 Trubner, Henry. The Art of Greater India, 3000 B.C.-1800 A.D.; An Exhibition of Indian Art Presented Under the Patronage of the Embassy of India Functioning for the Government of India. March 1 to Apr. 16, 1950. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950. page number: no. 42 url: Mayling Soong Foundation, and Wellesley College. Exhibition of the Art of India, April 18th Through May 15th, 1953, Under the Auspices of the Mayling Soong Foundation. Wellesley, MA: Mayling Soong Foundation, 1953. page number: no. 14 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 747 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n135 Rowland, Benjamin. The Evolution of the Buddha Image. [New York]: Distributed by Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 11, p. 51 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 231 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n255 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 231 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255 Craven, Roy C. A Concise History of Indian Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 113, fig. 72 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 291 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n311 Heeramaneck, Alice N. Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984. page number: no. 32 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 126–127 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 96, p. 87; Mentioned: p. 119 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.278/1943.278_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.278/1943.278_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.278/1943.278_full.tif