id:			146713
accession number:	1972.160
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.160
updated:		2025-06-11 11:04:26.228000

White-Robed Guanyin, late 1200s. Attributed to Zhang Yuehu (Chinese, active 1200s). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; painting: 104.5 x 42.2 cm (41 1/8 x 16 5/8 in.); overall with knobs: 195.4 x 61.8 cm (76 15/16 x 24 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1972.160

title:				White-Robed Guanyin
title in original language:	白衣觀音
series:				
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creation date:			late 1200s
creation date earliest:		1275
creation date latest:		1300
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Zhang Yuehu (Chinese, active 1200s)  - artist

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measurements: Painting: 104.5 x 42.2 cm (41 1/8 x 16 5/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 195.4 x 61.8 cm (76 15/16 x 24 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

	title:		China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Buddhist Gallery Rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10, 2016-August 1, 201).', 'opening_date': '2016-02-10T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1972
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. <em>Mayuyama, Seventy Years</em> [Ryūsen shūhō: sōgyō shichijusshūnen kinen = 龍泉集芳 : 創業七十周年記念]. Tōkyō: Mayuyama Ryūsendō 繭山龍泉堂, 1976.
	page number: 	Reproduced: vol. II, pl. 165
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 343
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n363

	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 66, pp. 84–85
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	Rogers, Howard. "Questioning Authority," <em>Orientations</em> (Jan/Feb 2005) vol. 36, no. 1.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 59; Reproduced: p. 58
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	Yujia Fu, Emma. "Configuring a Transoceanic Avalokiteśvara." <em>Res</em> 83 (Spring 2025): 22–48.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 27, 36; Reproduced: p. 28 (fig. 3)
	url:		

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