The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Landscape with Streams and Mountains

Landscape with Streams and Mountains

late 1700s or early 1800s
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.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-1915
    (Jean Lawson, New York, NY, sold to the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust as gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1915-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
    Through the Eyes of Joseon Painters: Real Scenery Landscapes of Korea [화가의시선: 조선시대실경산수화]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2019.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.216