id: 162867 accession number: 2003.352 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.352 updated: 2022-05-19 09:00:14.038000 Lineage Portrait of Buddhist Monks, 1600s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Hanging scroll mounted on a panel (framed); ink, color, and gold on paper; overall: 171.5 x 99.7 cm (67 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Gow 2003.352 title: Lineage Portrait of Buddhist Monks title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1600s creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1699 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Gow copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: hanging scroll mounted on a panel (framed); ink, color, and gold on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 171.5 x 99.7 cm (67 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Henri Vever [1854–1942], France date: footnotes: citations: Robert and Katy Gow, Naples, FL, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–2003 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2003– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This painting features 24 Buddhist priests, likely of several generations and members of the same temple or school. The priests are depicted with attention to individual features and appearances, dressed in their formal garments. They may represent monks of the Ōbaku school, a form of Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism founded in Japan by Chinese émigré monks and their Japanese followers. The painting has remnants of a Japanese mounting, indicating that it was once kept in Japan. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chang, Willow Hai. Song of Life: Chinese Art from the Gow Family Collection. Naples, FL: Naples Museum of Art, 2000. page number: cat. no. 25 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art : [Exhibition] the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 9 June-20 August 2006. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 2006. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 28, p. 117; Reproduced: p. 99 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.352/2003.352_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.352/2003.352_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.352/2003.352_full.tif