The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection record for "Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant," a hanging scroll in ink and color on silk, Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century, in the style of the early eleventh century painter Kasuga Motomitsu. The record gives the accession number 29.160.29, an image measuring 48 3/4 by 29 1/4 inches, the classification Paintings, and the credit line H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929. The scroll shows the traveling monk with an attendant, tagged by the museum as a portrait of a monk.
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PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45372
Source TypeMuseum
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The holding museum's own catalogue record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its culture, period, medium, dimensions and accession number, its own title directly naming Xuanzang. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Xuanzang directly: "own collection record for "Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant," a hanging scroll in ink and color on silk, Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century, in the style of the early eleventh century..."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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