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Landscape with Streams and Mountains

계산진경도

late 1700s or early 1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392–1910)
Medium
Ink and color on paper with a silk border
Measurements
Painting only: 65.6 x 45.9 cm (25 13/16 x 18 1/16 in.); Overall: 68.5 x 50.7 cm (26 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.216
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Topographic landscape painting such as this hanging scroll became popular in Korea during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Description

The tradition of landscape painting that details actual natural sites and captures their topographic features in Korea began in the 1700s and continued onward. Such landscape style based actual sites and the artist's observation is called True-view landscape painting.
A hanging scroll in ink and light color depicts a mountain rising to rounded, textured peaks. In the upper right, vertical calligraphy and a red seal appear. Below, a walled compound with blue roofs nestles among trees. Winding streams flow through the lower landscape, surrounded by clusters of small houses and trees rendered with short, repetitive strokes. Muted browns and blues fill the scene, framed by a blue silk border.

Landscape with Streams and Mountains

late 1700s or early 1800s

Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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