明 /清 佚名 李公麟 偽款 龍王請齋圖 卷|Buddhist luohans crossing the sea to the palace of the dragon king

Unidentified artist

late 16th–early 17th century · Handscroll; ink on silk · Asian Art

The Northern Song painter Li Gonglin reinvented figure painting in the eleventh century, infusing old themes with a new scholarly appeal and creating compositions that were copied for centuries to come. This painting, made in the late Ming dynasty, bears a fake signature of Li; it may be a distant reflection of something he painted, but it may also be a pure fabrication. It depicts a group of Daoist immortals crossing the sea on various magical vehicles—a dragon, a begging bowl, a lotus leaf—to the dragon king, who awaits on the far shore.

Artist

Unidentified artist

Date

late 16th–early 17th century

Medium

Handscroll; ink on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918