In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
The aged, Taoist sage in the foreground has become so attuned to nature as to be intimate with a fierce tiger, whom he strokes. A young man—probably a disciple—approaches with a bowl of symbolic fruits: a persimmon (fecundity), a ling-chih mushroom (longevity), and the citrus fo-shou (good fortune). Likewise, the evergreen pine tree connotes endurance, and the bamboo flexibility. The stylized trees, clouds, and waterfall signal that this is a transcendent, rather than a "natural," landscape.
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Unidentified artist — 明嘉靖 佚名 王元帥圖 軸|Marshal Wang
Monju Riding Lion with Attendants
Portrait of an Abbot
Unidentified artist — 明景泰 佚名 北斗中斗本命星君圖 軸|Star deities 
Chen Zihe — 明 陳子和 古木酒仙圖 軸|Drunken recluse beneath an old tr
八仙図|Eight Daoist Immortals Welcoming Jurōjin
羅漢図 （十六羅漢図の内）|Arhats
Lohans
Lohans
Unidentified artist — 元 佚名 釋迦三尊圖 軸|Shakyamuni coming
羅漢図（十六羅漢図の内）|Arhat from a series of sixteen Arhats