Luohans Crossing the Sea 波通羅漢

Luohans crossing the sea and being received by the Dragon King and his attendants. Scroll. Attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (1494 - 1552 CE), 16th Century. According to the inscription the painting was executed in the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Jiaqing (1548 CE), in the style of Li Gonglin 李公麟 (1049 - 1106 CE). There is a colophon by Wen Cheng-ming (Wen Zhengming 文徵明) citing a passage from a Buddhist sutra. A separate colophon at the end records the combination of Qiu Ying's painting and Wen's colophon, by Wang Ts'ung. An inscription in seal script in great size is at the beginning of the scroll. The painting also has colophons by Chen Hung-shou and Chang Pu-an along with a number of seals. Formerly in the collection of John Calvin Ferguson (1866 - 1945 CE).