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The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch

五祖再來圖

c. mid-1300s

Yintuoluo 因陀羅

(Chinese, c. 1285-c. 1355)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll, ink on paper

Image: 32.7 x 44.6 cm (12 7/8 x 17 9/16 in.); Overall: 245 x 62 cm (96 7/16 x 24 7/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.211

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

This painting is just a section of a handscroll that has been remounted as a hanging scroll.

Inscriptions

Inscription

[印] 人言洞裡桃花源，未必人間有此枝

Inscription Translation

Artist's seal: People allude to the Grotto of the Peach Blossoms; it is not likely that such a flowering branch would exist in our world.

Inscription Remark

Yintuoluo's seal has been trimmed away with only a trace surviving. Wai-kam Ho, CMA's Senior Research Curator of Oriental and Chinese Art from 1959-1983, believed that this was the same seal that has shown up on a number of surviving fragments.

Inscription

此子無爺只有娘，禪師莫問幾時生。 青松未老黃梅飄，兩世都如夢一場。 [印] 楚石

Inscription Translation

1 inscription and 1 additional seal of Chushi Fanqi 楚石梵琦 (1296-1370). Poem: This child has no father, only a mother./ You, the Chan master, don’t need to ask when he was born./ The green pine is not yet old and the rain comes during yellow plum season./ Twice reincarnated, all just seems to be but a dream. [seal] Chu shi

Provenance
?–1938
Masuda Takashi 益田孝 [1848–1938], Tokyo, Japan, by bequest to his son Masuda Taro
Masuda Taro 益田太郎 [1875–1953], Tokyo, Japan
?–1967
(Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1967–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Inoue, Shōzō. Daibi: Ōsaka Bijutsu Kurabu 50-shūnen, Ōsaka Shōsei Kumiai 70-shūnen kinen [大美 : 大阪美術俱楽部五十周年, 大阪商盛組合七十周年記念 = Special exhibition in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Osaka Art Club and the 75th anniversary of the Osaka Art Dealers Association]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka Bijutsu Kurabu, 1960. cat. no. 6
Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. cat. no. 208
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 261 archive.org
Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 18.
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 345 archive.org
Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 98, p. 123
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 139-141
Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 146, fig. 81
Exhibition history

Daibi: 50th anniversary of Osaka Art and Music Club, 70th anniversary of the Osaka Shosei Association. Osaka Art Club, Osaka, Japan (1960).

Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.211