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Buddha's Conversion of Five Bhiksu

佛渡五比丘圖

mid-1300s

Li Sheng 李升

(Chinese, active c. 1324-after 1375)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Handscroll, ink on paper

Painting only: 26.7 x 110.5 cm (10 1/2 x 43 1/2 in.)

Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.92

Location

not on view

Description

This episode stems from the life of the historical Buddha, who, after his enlightenment, was initially hesitant about preaching his own doctrine. After much personal deliberation and prodding by deities, he finally relented. The first converts were the five guards who served him when he was still a prince. For Li Sheng, this is the pretext of the painting, which moves from the interaction of the bhiksu with the Buddha to a broader awareness of the vast surroundings of the scene.

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紫篔生李升識 [印] 李氏子雲

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Artist's signature and seal: Zi yun sheng, Li Sheng signed. [seal] Li shi zi yun.

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.

Provenance

Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 [1631–1694]

Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968]

(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry)

?-1997

Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1997-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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. Reproduced: cat. no. 222

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. Reproduced:

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. Reproduced: cat. no. 105, p. 130

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. Reproduced: #A23-014, p. I-287

Chŏng, Yang-mo, Judith G Smith, Sŏng-mi Yi, Hongnam Kim, Hwi-jun An . Arts of Korea. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: p. 389, fig. 16

Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999. Reproduced: p. 150, no. 59

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. Reproduced: p. 309, fig. 23

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. Reproduced: pp. 164-167

Exhibition history

Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968).

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).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 22-October 26, 2003).

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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佛渡五比丘圖

Li Sheng 李升

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