Highlights
Painting of a Joyful Scene
  • Nationality/Period

    Joseon Dynasty

  • Materials

    Paper

  • Author

    Presumably Shin Yun-bok(申潤福, 1758?-1817?)

  • Category

    Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting

  • Dimensions

    215.7x60.4cm(Hanging scroll painting), 150.3×42.0cm(Image)

  • Accession Number

    Dongwon2559

This painting portrays people gathered to enjoy a competition of traditional Korean wrestling known as ssireum and the traditional Korean martial art taekkyeon. The Chinese characters on the top-right state that it was painted in the Eulsa Year (1785) by Shin Yun-bok (pen-name: Hyewon). Another painting with the same title believed to have been painted by Yu Suk (1827-1873) is currently kept at the Seoul National University Museum. It resembles this painting and is presumed to have been based upon it.