id: 149683 accession number: 1979.71 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.71 updated: 2020-10-27 09:00:51.337000 Arhat, 1235. Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392). Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk; image: 52.7 x 40.6 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in.); overall: 140 x 54.1 cm (55 1/8 x 21 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.71 title: Arhat title in original language: 세공양존자 (世供養尊者) series: series in original language: creation date: 1235 creation date earliest: 1235 creation date latest: 1235 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392) technique: hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk department: Korean Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 52.7 x 40.6 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in.); Overall: 140 x 54.1 cm (55 1/8 x 21 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-20T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 20-March 9, 1980). title: Korea: Bridge of Culture opening date: 1980-06-10T04:00:00 Korea: Bridge of Culture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 10-September 7, 1980). 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: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment (918-1392) opening date: 2003-10-22T00:00:00 Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment (918-1392). Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 22, 2003-January 11, 2004). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). title: Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings opening date: 2010-10-11T00:00:00 Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (October 11-November 21, 2010). title: Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2018-07-16T04:00:00 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16, 2018-January 20, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Buddhist Portraiture. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan (April 29-June 7, 1981). * Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 23, 1990-January 13, 1991). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29- December 23, 2013). --- PROVENANCE (Fugendo Co., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: through 1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This painting that depicts an arhat, a human being who has achieved enlightenment, used to be part of a set of 500 hanging scrolls. digital description: An arhat (Nahan in Korean), an advanced disciple of the Buddha, is represented here in profile with a halo encircling his head. This particular arhat is Segongyang jonja, numbered as the 464th of 500 arhats. He sits on a woven bamboo stool, is luring a dragon into an alms bowl. This hanging scroll is one of only about ten known works that survive today, all of which (except for Cleveland’s piece) are currently preserved in Korea or Japan. wall description: Arhats are Buddhist disciples who attain not only enlightenment, but supernatural power. These semidivine beings are believed to have a special role to guard and to advocate the Buddhist law. Here we see an arhat, indicated by the halo around his head, luring a dragon into an alms bowl. While the dragon symbolizes the power of rulers in court-sponsored art, in the Buddhist context, this mythical creature is perceived as a ferocious being to be tamed. The arhat’s assertive, yet extremely calm facial expression indicates this enlightened being’s complete emotional detachment.

This was likely part of set of a 500 hanging scrolls, but now it is one of only about 10 known works that have survived. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 134, p. 82; Mentioned: p. 62 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 奈良国立博物館. Nihon no Bukkyō o kizuita hitobito: sono shōzō to sho [日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 = Special exhibition of Buddhist portraiture]. Nara: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 56 [1981]. page number: cat. no. 200 url: Kikutake, Junʼichi, and U-taek Jeong. The Buddhist Painting of Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대의 불화]. Seoul: Sigongsa, 1996. page number: Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 271, no.128, Mentioned: vol.2, p.101 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 76, cat. no. 47 url: Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 89, cat. no. 22 url: Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Painting [고려 불화 대전 ]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p.192, no. 84, Mentioned: p.309 url: Jeong, Woo-taek. “The Selection and Transformation of Chinese Buddhist painting in the Goryeo Period [고려의 중국불화 선택과 변용].” Misulsa yeongu (2011): 109-136. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01791591 Kim, Jung-hee. "The Patrons and Donors of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings [高麗佛畵의 發願者와 施主者].” Kangjwa misulsa (2012): 251-284. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09054241 Pak, Eun-kyung. “About Silk and Enshrinement Practice of Goryeo Buddhist Painting [高麗佛畵의 변죽: 本地, 畵幅, 奉安에 대한 問題].” Misulsa nondan (2012): 35-65. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01909570 Kwang Hee, Shin. "A Sixteenth-Century Arhat Painting Commissioned by Queen Munjeong: Deoksewi, 153rd of the 500 Arhats, in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology, no. 9 (2015): 93-108. page number: Reproduced: p.100 url: Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.71/1979.71_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.71/1979.71_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.71/1979.71_full.tif