id: 147927 accession number: 1974.29 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.29 updated: 2023-12-06 07:04:46.457000 Portrait of Priest Dazhi (1048–1116), Master of Law, 1100s. Inscribed by Liu Tao (Chinese, late 1000s–early 1100s). Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk; image: 92.4 x 40.5 cm (36 3/8 x 15 15/16 in.); overall: 171.9 x 55.1 cm (67 11/16 x 21 11/16 in.); with knobs: 171.9 x 60.5 cm (67 11/16 x 23 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.29 title: Portrait of Priest Dazhi (1048–1116), Master of Law title in original language: 大智律師元照像 series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1125 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Liu Tao (Chinese, late 1000s–early 1100s) - calligrapher --- measurements: Image: 92.4 x 40.5 cm (36 3/8 x 15 15/16 in.); Overall: 171.9 x 55.1 cm (67 11/16 x 21 11/16 in.); with knobs: 171.9 x 60.5 cm (67 11/16 x 23 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscription by Liu Tao (late 1000s–early 1100s): Dignified with the perfection of the upasampada,/ His appearance is like his mind;/ Uncompromising and loftily aloof,/ His mind is like his appearance./ To say he is square, he proves to be round;/ He looks timid, yet his spirit is unbound./ Having no attachment, and holding no reins,/ Man and deities alike take refuge in him. (Translation by WKH, 1980) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). title: Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art opening date: 1978-04-29T05:00:00 Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art. Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 29-June 10, 1978). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. 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: 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: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-08-12T04:00:00 Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Nihon bukkyo bijutsu no genryū [Sources of Japanese Buddhist art = 日本仏敎美術の源流]. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan (April 29-June 11,1978). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004). --- PROVENANCE Muto Collection date: before 1974 footnotes: citations: (Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102. page number: Mentioned: p. 103, no. 182; reproduced: p. 89 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 118–36. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 127. figs. 10-11 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523 Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 奈良国立博物館. Nihon Bukkyō bijutsu no genryū [Sources of Japanese Buddhist art: special exhibitions = 日本仏敎美術の源流]. Nara: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 53 [1978] page number: cat. no. 63 url: 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: cat. no. 17, p. 29 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: fig. 2, p. 55 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.29/1974.29_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.29/1974.29_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.29/1974.29_full.tif