Huang Jue
Bodhidharma, the First Patriarch of Zen (Chan) Buddhism
1865
Physical Qualities
Ink and slight color on paper; mounted as a scroll, 33 7/8 x 11 7/16 in. (86 x 29 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of James R. Herbert Boone
Object Number
1954.257
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1954; James R. Herbert Boone
Inscribed: The inscription reads, "Respectfully painted by the female scholar Huang Jue of Haiyan, in the fifth month in summer of the bingyin year of the Tongzhi reign."