Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 19, 1200s
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 19

1200s

Medium
Album; ink on paper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Painting: 34.2 x 38.4 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
Culture
China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
Credit line
John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

This leaf is part of an important album of 50 drawings encompassing three subjects: processions of Daoist deities to the celestial spheres, the Ten Kings of Hell, and Erlang’s Campaign to Rid Mount Guankou of Dangerous Beasts (soushan tu 搜山圖).

This section of the Daoist pantheon features, in the lower row from left to right, the Heavenly Lords Zhu Yanshi 朱彥矢, Zhang An 張安, Xin Jiang 辛江, and Deng Cheng 鄧成. Depicted in the upper row from left to right are the Field Marshals Peng Qiao 龐喬 and Lu 呂元帥 . Their names are inscribed above each figure.