The Eighteen Luohans
In the seventeenth century, Ding Yunpeng became famous for his fantastical depictions of luohans. This scroll bears a signature by Ding, but the figures’ facial shapes and the fluttering, gossamer-light brushwork suggest that it is a nineteenth-century copy. At the far left side of the scroll near the top, the artist finished the composition with an exquisitely-drawn dragon descending on clouds, about to be tamed by the seated luohan who opens his mouth to call the beast to heel.
Artwork Details
- 清 丁雲鵬（款） 十八羅漢圖 卷
- Title: The Eighteen Luohans
- Artist: After Ding Yunpeng (Chinese, 1547–ca. 1621)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 19th century?; spurious date of 1607
- Culture: China
- Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 92 in. (21 x 233.7 cm)
- Classification: Painted Canvases
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.240
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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