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Byaku-e Kannon, White-Robed Bodhisattva of Compassion


白衣観音図
Kano Motonobu (Japanese, 1476–1559)
Japanese
Muromachi period
first half of the 16th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions Image: 157.2 x 76.4 cm (61 7/8 x 30 1/16 in.)
Mount (with jiku): 256.5 x 104.1 cm (101 x 41 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4267
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #36; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 70-1; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VII (Early Kano & Momoyama ptg.), no. 5
ProvenanceDaimyo Hachisuka of Awa Province. Before 1883, sold in Japan by Yamanaka (dealer) to Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)