Mountainous landscape with Luohans and Guanyin

Object Details

• Artist

  Traditionally attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106)

• Description

  Guanyin and about fourty Luohans involved in various activities with several attendants in a mountainous landscape. On the painting, one signature on lower left end; Eleven seals in total, with five half seals on the right end. Three colophons follow the painting, each bearing a signature and one seal.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Worch et Cie (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Provenance

  To 1910

  Worch et Cie, Paris, to 1910 [1]

  From 1910 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Worch et Cie in 1910 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 653, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1900s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Worch et Cie, Li, Gonglin

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Landscapes, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Luohan, Bodhisattva, Guanyin

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings