École chinoise d'après Li Gonlin- Rouleau bouddhiste : Les d - Lot 205

École chinoise d'après Li Gonlin- Rouleau bouddhiste : Les dix-huit luohan Chinese school after Li Gonglin- Buddhist scroll: The eighteen luohan. Ink and color on silk. China. Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 19th century. Apocryphal signature of Li Gonlin with two stamps in the lower left corner of the scroll. Dimensions : 304 x 40 cm (view). The eighteen arhats or eighteen luohan are characters from Buddhist mythology who have reached the stage of arhats in Chinese Buddhist culture. Originally made up of ten disciples of Gautama, the group grew to eighteen between the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Li Gonlin was a painter during the Northern Song dynasty (960-1279). He became famous for his paintings of horses, then turned to Buddhist and Taoist religious painting, as well as portraits and landscapes. A scroll in the style of Li Gonglin, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644,) or the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (inventory number 47.136.2).