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The Buddha Converting Hariti

Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on silk
DimensionsHeight x length (handscroll overall): 33 × 881.3 cm (13 × 346 15/16 in.)
Height x width (painting only): 27.8 × 105.6 cm (10 15/16 × 41 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2845
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and Changshu, China; 1904, by inheritance from Weng Tonghe to his great-grandson, Weng Zhilian (d. 1919), Changshu and Tianjin; 1919, by inheritance from Weng Zhilian to his son, Wan-go H.C. Weng, Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)
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