Shakyamuni Buddha with Scenes of his Life
CultureTibeto-Chinese
Date18th century
MediumThangka in colors on cotton; mounted on silk
DimensionsImage: 37 1/2 x 22 inches (95.25 x 55.88 cm)
Mount: 5 feet 1/2 inches x 31 inches (153.67 x 78.74 cm)
Mount: 5 feet 1/2 inches x 31 inches (153.67 x 78.74 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-230/3
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistorySiamese and Tibetan Paintings and Bronzes, Norfolk Society of Arts, VA, November 7–28, 1948, no. 32.
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 7b as Sakyamuni Buddha, Surrounded by Scenes from his Life.
Sacred Images of Tibet, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, August 20–October 15, 1989, no cat.
With Yunk Ku Chai, Ch’ien Men Wai, Beijing, by 1935;
Purchased from Yunk Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935 [1].
[1] Note on purchase included in NAMA curatorial file.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 31.
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