id: 145953 accession number: 1971.16 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.16 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:28.588000 The Five Hundred Arhats, 1591–1626. Wu Bin (Chinese, active c. 1591–1626). Handscroll; ink and color on paper; overall: 39.5 x 2646.5 cm (15 9/16 x 1041 15/16 in.); painting only: 37.7 x 2347 cm (14 13/16 x 924 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1971.16 title: The Five Hundred Arhats title in original language: 五百羅漢圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1591–1626 creation date earliest: 1591 creation date latest: 1626 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Handscroll; ink and color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wu Bin (Chinese, active c. 1591–1626) - artist Originally from Fujian province, the artist Wu Bin moved to Nanjing by 1600 where he was affiliated as a Buddhist layman with the Qixia temple. He specialized in landscapes and Buddhist subjects. --- measurements: Overall: 39.5 x 2646.5 cm (15 9/16 x 1041 15/16 in.); Painting only: 37.7 x 2347 cm (14 13/16 x 924 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 枝隱頭陀吳彬齋心拜寫 [印]吳彬之印; 文中父 translation: remark: inscription: 7 seals of Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–95): Gu xi tian zi 古希天子; Shou 壽; Qianlong jian shang 乾隆鑑賞; San xi tang jing jian xi 三希堂精鑑璽; Yi zi sun 宜子孫; Tai shang huang di zhi bao 太上皇帝之寳; Qian qing gong bao 乾清宮寶. translation: remark: inscription: 6 seals of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988): Ke an geng zi wu shi yi hou suo de ming ji 可菴庚子五十以後所得名跡; 5 other Cheng Qi seals. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period opening date: 1971-11-09T05:00:00 The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 11-April 2, 1972). title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: The Art of Obaku opening date: 1993-10-05T04:00:00 The Art of Obaku. Kyoto National Museum (organizer) (October 5-November 7, 1993). title: Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting opening date: 2015-11-14T00:00:00 Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016). title: Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-02-08T05:00:00 Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019). title: Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2022-05-13T04:00:00 Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-November 6, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10-March 29, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Chinese Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 1999-April 26, 2000).', 'opening_date': '1999-07-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 1, 2002-July 23, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2002-08-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–1795) date: 1736–95 footnotes: citations: Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988] by descent to his son, Stephen O. K. Chen date: 1960s? footnotes: citations: Stephen O. K. Chen [20th century], New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1971 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bi dian zhu lin shi ju bao ji xu bian 秘殿珠林石渠寶笈續编. Taibei: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum], 1971.(original text dated 1793) page number: ch. 4, p. 55(b) url: Chen, Rentao 陳仁濤 [J.D. Chen]. Gu gong yi yi shu hua mu jiao zhu 故宮已佚書畫目校注. Hong Kong: Dongnan shu ju, 1956. page number: p. 40(a) url: Cahill, James. The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, 1971. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 77 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. 351 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n371 Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 263, cat. no. 205 url: Andrews, Julia Frances. The Significance of Style and Subject Matter in the Painting of Cui Zizhong. PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1984. page number: Reproduced: fig. 14, p. 298 url: Burkus, Anne Gail. The Artefacts of Biography in Chʻen Hung-Shou's Pao-Lun-Tʻang Chi. PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1987. page number: Reproduced: fig. 46, p. 637 url: Barnhart, Richard M., Xin Yang, Chongzheng Nie, James Cahill, Shaojun Lang, and Hung Wu. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press; Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 238, no. 222. url: Shi, Shouqian 石守謙. Cong feng ge dao hua yi: fan si Zhongguo mei shu shi 從風格到畫意: 反思中國美術史 . Taibei: Shi tou chu ban, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 298, fig. 185 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 299-307 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 299-307 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.16/1971.16_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.16/1971.16_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.16/1971.16_full.tif