id: 160134 accession number: 1997.92 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.92 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:34.536000 Buddha's Conversion of Five Bhiksu, mid-1300s. Li Sheng (Chinese, active c. 1324-after 1375). Handscroll, ink on paper; painting only: 26.7 x 110.5 cm (10 1/2 x 43 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.92 title: Buddha's Conversion of Five Bhiksu title in original language: 佛渡五比丘圖 series: series in original language: creation date: mid-1300s creation date earliest: 1340 creation date latest: 1370 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: handscroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Li Sheng (Chinese, active c. 1324-after 1375) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 26.7 x 110.5 cm (10 1/2 x 43 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 紫篔生李升識 [印] 李氏子雲 translation: remark: inscription: 4 colophons and 12 additional seals: The "Heart" Sutra (Maha Prajnaparamita) text written by Wu Yuqing 吳餘慶 (early 15th c.); 2 seals of Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 (1631-1694); 3 colophons, one dated 1929 and two dated 1936, and 9 seals of Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 (1894–1968); 1 colophon, dated 1932, of Chen Dingshan; 1 seal unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection opening date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00 The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 22-October 26, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 [1631–1694] date: footnotes: citations: Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968] date: footnotes: citations: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry) date: footnotes: citations: Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 222 url: Ishikawa, Jun 石川淳, Yoshitaka Iriya 入矢義高, Yūjirō Nakata 中田勇次郎, and Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Chin [黄公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 呉鎮]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. page number: Reproduced: 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. 105, p. 130 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第 1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇 [= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. page number: Reproduced: #A23-014, p. I-287 url: Chŏng, Yang-mo, Judith G Smith, Sŏng-mi Yi, Hongnam Kim, Hwi-jun An . Arts of Korea. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 389, fig. 16 url: Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 150, no. 59 url: Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p. 309, fig. 23 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 164-167 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.92/1997.92_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.92/1997.92_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.92/1997.92_full.tif