Highlights
Painting of a Woman Carrying a Baby
  • Nationality/Period

    Joseon Dynasty

  • Materials

    Paper

  • Author

    Shin Yun-bok(申潤福, 1758?-1817?)

  • Category

    Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting

  • Dimensions

    23.3x24.8cm(Image, Album)

  • Accession Number

    Deoksu2291 - 13

This painting portrays a woman carrying a baby on her back. The Chinese characters on the bottom right provide the pen-name “Hyewon” of Shin Yun-bok, a famed painter of the Joseon period. The margin contains Monk Buseol’s statement that it is comparable to the works of Zhou Fang, a painter of the Tang Dynasty, and displays the extraordinary skills of the painter.