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accession number: 1997.92
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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
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creation date: mid-1300s
creation date earliest: 1340
creation date latest: 1370
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creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique: handscroll, ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Li Sheng (Chinese, active c. 1324-after 1375) - artist
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measurements: Painting only: 26.7 x 110.5 cm (10 1/2 x 43 1/2 in.)
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inscription: 紫篔生李升識
[印] 李氏子雲
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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.
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 [1631–1694]
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Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968]
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(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry)
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Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1997
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1997-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 150, no. 59
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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
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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
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