Buddhist Deities

1700s–1800s

Medium
Four-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Painting only: 114 x 115.2 cm (44 7/8 x 45 3/8 in.); Overall: 147.5 x 123.8 cm (58 1/16 x 48 3/4 in.)
Culture
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
Credit line
Gift of Mitsuru Tajima in memory of Robert P. Bergman
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting, now preserved by mounting on a four-panel continuous folding screen. On the back are Buddhist sutra pages, with text written in gold ink on indigo dyed paper.