The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 7, 2023

Buddhist Deities

1700s-1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

Four-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk

Painting only: 114 x 115.2 cm (44 7/8 x 45 3/8 in.); Overall: 147.5 x 123.8 cm (58 1/16 x 48 3/4 in.)

Gift of Mitsuru Tajima in memory of Robert P. Bergman 1999.119

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting.

Description

This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting, now preserved by mounting on a four-panel continuous folding screen. On the back are Buddhist sutra pages, with text written in gold ink on indigo dyed paper.

Provenance
?-1999
Mitsura Tajima, Tokyo, Japan, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1999-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Kim, Chang-kyun. "Study on 17th and 18th-Century Large Buddhist Paintings of Buddha's Sermon on Vulture Peak [조선시대 17-8세기 靈山會掛佛圖 연구]." Kangjwa misulsa (2009): 83-113. www.dbpia.co.kr
Exhibition history

Japanese and Korean Gallery Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 6, 2015-January 4, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.119