Buddhist Deities (1700s–1800s): Art, History and Details

Buddhist Deities (1700s–1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Buddhist Deities
• Date: 1700s–1800s
• Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Four-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1999.119

A detail from the museum

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

Collection credit

Gift of Mitsuru Tajima in memory of Robert P. Bergman

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• 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.
• Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.