Anonymous (19th/20th century)


The Luohan BakulaInk and color on paper, hanging scroll, at the right inscribed with the name Banuojia Zunzhe and at the left bearing a signature reading Liangfeng Daoren Luo Ping with three seals.46 1/2 x 20 5/8in (118 x 52.5cm)
|While this painting bears a signature reading Luo Ping, it is in fact based on an ink rubbing made from 18th century stone engravings of sixteen luohan paintings attributed to the Tang dynasty monk-painter Guanxiu (832-912). See Berger, Patricia, "Public Spectacle and Private Devotions: Buddhist Art in Eighteenth-Century Yangzhou," in Karlsson, Kim, Alfreda Murck, and Michele Matteini, ed., Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping, Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 2009, pp. 46-48, fig. 11b.