Gathering of government officials
This idyllic painting records the gathering of government officials and belongs to the Joseon painting genre known as gyehoedo. Though the gathering is reason for the painting, the figures are diminutively situated within an ideal landscape setting. Five officials are seated on an embankment near the water. They may have arrived via the two moored boats. In the bottom left corner, another official arrives on horseback with three attendants. As no gathering is successful without food and drink, an attendant is seated by a brazier preparing refreshments. The landscape elements are painted in a typical 16th-century style derived ultimately from the Chinese idiom of Guo Xi (ca. 1000–ca. 1090). The tripartite composition features foreground rocky boulders topped by trees rendered with a mixture of wash and short strokes, a middle ground expanse of open water with a single fishing boat, and distant bulbuous mountain peaks. In keeping with the gyehoedo genre, there is a prominent poetic inscription on the painting that is dated 1565.
Artwork Details
- Title: Gathering of government officials
- Artist: Unidentified artist
- Period: Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Date: calligraphy dated 1565
- Culture: Korea
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 18 1/4 in. × 22 in. (46.4 × 55.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021
- Object Number: 2021.154
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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