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Facebook - Nationality/Period
Joseon Dynasty
- Materials
Silk Fabric - Silk
- Author
Kim Hongdo(金弘道, 1745-after 1806)
- Category
Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting
- Dimensions
75.1×39.4cm(Image, Folding screen)
- Accession Number
Deoksu 5768
Kim Hong-do (1745-after 1806), a renowned court painter of the late Joseon period, produced a number of great paintings, including genre paintings and commemorative “lifetime paintings” (pyeongsaengdo in Korean) designed to capture the most glorious moments in a person’s life. Mounted on an eight-panel folding screen, these paintings here show the eight most important moments in the life of Hong I-sang (1549-1615), a Confucian scholar-statesman of the mid-Joseon period. The postscript at the top of the eighth panel reveals that they are the work of Kim Hong-do produced in the ninth lunar month of 1781 while he was serving in the Waseo (Office of Tiles and Bricks).
