id: 139731 accession number: 1963.504 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.504 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:16.851000 Head of Buddha, AD 400s. Northern India, Mathura, Gupta Period (320-647). Sandstone; overall: 30.6 x 16.6 cm (12 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1963.504 title: Head of 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: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Mathura, Gupta Period (320-647) technique: sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 30.6 x 16.6 cm (12 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America opening date: 2009-02-10T00:00:00 Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 10-August 9, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1903-1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1963– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: During the 5th century, sculptors in the city of Mathura achieved a balance between fleshy volumes and idealized linear features. The lines of the brows arch with tension and alertness, though the lids are half closed. His hair is rendered in short curls all over the head and the cranial protuberance, which during this period came to be interpreted as a mark of one who has reached enlightenment, his state of awareness having surpassed the boundaries of an ordinary human being. wall description: During the 5th century, sculptors in the city of Mathura achieved a balance between fleshy volumes and idealized linear features. The lines of the brows arch with tension and alertness, though the lids are half closed. His hair is rendered in short curls all over the head and the cranial protuberance, which during this period came to be interpreted as a mark of one who has reached enlightenment, his state of awareness having surpassed the boundaries of an ordinary human being. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 50, no. 10, 1963, pp. 263–294. page number: Mentioned: p. 292, no. 67 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25151974 Kramer, Joellen. “A Buddha Head from Mathurā.” The Burlington Magazine (March 1965). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 76, p. 161 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. 230 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n254 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. 230 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n254 Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 102, fig. 30 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152680 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. 290 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n310 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. 128–129 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: no. 97, p. 119; Reproduced: no. 97, p. 88 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 202 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.504/1963.504_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.504/1963.504_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.504/1963.504_full.tif