Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Buddha
- Date
- 200s CE
- Medium
- sandstone
- Culture
- Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 121109
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Artists in the north Indian city of Mathura reinterpreted the appearance of the Greco-Roman style of drapery, which was popular in the region of Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan. They preferred a more otherworldly, abstracted rendition of the folds, giving the Buddha a powerful, superhuman energy.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1941: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1941–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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