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The Taoist Immortal Lu Dongbin

CultureChinese
Datelate 13th-early 14th century
MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on silk, ivory roller
DimensionsImage: 43 1/2 × 17 1/2 inches (110.49 × 44.45 cm)
Mount: 71 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (181.61 × 46.99 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number62-25
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

La voie du Tao, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, March 29- July 5, 2010. No. 71.1. 

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 – April 5, 1981; The Asia Society, December 3, 1981 – February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4 – November 17, 1982, no. 93.

Taoism and the Arts of China, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 11, 2000- January 7, 2001. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 21- May 13, 2001. No. 120.

The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, September 20, 2010- January 2, 2011. No. 165.

Provenance

N.V. Hammer;

Purchased from N.V. Hammer by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.

Published References

William Watson, l’ancienne Chine (Paris: 1979), 441, pl. 498.

Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 114, no. 93.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 320.

Stephen Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, The Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois, Chicago:  The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 324, no. 120.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 349, fig. 205.

James C.Y. Watt, The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Yale University Press, 2010), 138, fig. 165.

Catherine Delacour, La voie du Tao, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2010), 278, no. 71.1.

Pauline d' Abrigeon,ed., À portée d'Asie : collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d'art asiatique en France (1750-1930) (Dijon: Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; Paris: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, INHA, 2023), 135, (repro.).




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