ID: 700009018 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009018	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Figure Studies (drawing (visual work); multiple unknown Chinese artists; ca. 10th century; Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France...; Pelliot chinois 2002v; )

Note: Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Rather than conceptualize a single composition, the long sequence of sketches on the verso of a Daoist scripture consists of a variety of figure and head studies clearly executed by more than one painter. Some are oriented vertically, as is typical for a horizontally read hand scroll, while larger sketches were executed perpendicular to this. A date interpreted as either 861 or 921 appears on this scroll, though whether this refers to the production of these sketches is disputed.

Titles:

Figure Studies (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

人像畫畫稿集 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

scroll (information artifact) [300028629]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 10th century

Creator Display:

multiple unknown Chinese artists [preferred]

artists unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222]

Locations:

Other: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500309981] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Pelliot chinois 2002v

Display Materials: ink on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 23.4 × 446 cm (9 3⁄16 × 175 9⁄16 in.)

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	figures (representations) [300189808]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	Buddha [901000851]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877]
	..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Works at Mogao

Sources and Contributors:
Figure Studies	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 40
人像畫畫稿集	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 39

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Bibliothèque nationale de France [online] (2011-)

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 40

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 40
	..... Bibliothèque nationale de France [online] (2011-)