The Great Statue of Amida Buddha at Kamakura, Known as the Daibutsu, from the Priest's Garden
John La Farge
1887
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
19 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (48.9 x 31.8 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the family of Maria L. Hoyt, 1966
Accession Number
66.143
Tags
Buddha
About the Artist
John La Farge · 1835–1910
John La Farge (1835–1910) was born into a wealthy French émigré family in New York City, the son of John Frederick La Farge and Louisa Binsse de Saint-Victor. Educated at Jesuit institutions including Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland and St. John's College (now Fordham University), he initially pursued law but turned to art after receiving early drawing lessons from his maternal grandfather, a...