尺寸：Image: 47 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
年代：明代(16世纪)
质地：Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
风格：中原
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Guanyin the Bringer of Sons

A rare example of ecclesiastical painting from the end of the Ming period, this richly colored painting presents Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, in a peculiarly Chinese manifestation as the provider of male offspring. Guanyin is seated on a lion (a symbol of royalty in India), descending toward the worshiper on a plume of clouds while holding a baby in his arms. The child is girded by a jewel-encrusted belt and holds an imposing seal, both emblems of high official rank. Below him is the adoring figure of Sudhana, the young boy whose auspicious birth enabled him to set forth immediately on a quest for spiritual enlightenment.

这幅色彩浓丽的画作是明末宗教绘画中罕见的范例，画中呈现的是大慈大悲观世音菩萨（梵语为Avalokiteshvara）以极具中国特色的形象示现——作为赐予男性子嗣的神祇。观世音菩萨端坐于狮子（在印度文化中，狮子是王权的象征）之上，乘着一缕祥云向信徒飘然而下，怀中抱一婴孩。孩童身系镶嵌珠宝的腰带，手持威严的印玺，二者皆为高官显贵的象征。在观世音菩萨与婴孩下方，是虔诚礼拜的善财童子（Sudhana），他因吉祥的出生得以立即踏上寻求精神觉悟的修行之路。

Inscription: No artist’s inscription, signature, or seal

来源:
[Masami Aoi , Tokyo, until 1989; sold to MMA]

展览:
Lawrence. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. “Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850–1850,” August 28, 1994–October 9, 1994.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. “Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850–1850,” November 16, 1994–January 11, 1995.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Traditional Scholarly Values at the End of the Qing Dynasty: The Collection of Weng Tonghe (1830–1904),” June 30–January 3, 1999.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “A Millennium of Chinese Painting: Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection,” September 8, 2001–January 13, 2002.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Chinese Painting, Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection,” August 28, 2004–February 20, 2005.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Secular and Sacred: Scholars, Deities, and Immortals in Chinese Art,” September 10, 2005–January 8, 2006.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China's Age of Brilliance,” January 23–September 13, 2009.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine,” August 24, 2019–January 5, 2020.

著录:
A Decade of Collecting, 1984–1993: Friends of Asian Art Gifts. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, p. 22.

Toda Teisuke 戶田禎佑, and Ogawa Hiromitsu 小川祐充, eds. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: vol.1: American and Canadian Collections) 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998, p. 65, cat. no. A1-286.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friends of Asian Art Gifts 1985–2007. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, p. 37.