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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.142
People
Shim Sa-chŏng (also known as Yi-suk ['cha']; Hyŏn-chae ['ho']), Korean (1707 - 1769)
Title
Two Scholars Seated in a Landscape, Engaged in Conversation, and Admiring a Waterfall While an Attendant Prepares Tea
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
mid 18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/117347

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper; with seals of the artist reading "Shim Shi" and "Yi Suk"
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 26.6 x W. 39.3 cm (10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)
overall mounting including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 132.1 × W. 56.5 cm (52 × 22 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kang Collection, New York (by 2002)] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
#011

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase in honor of James Cuno through the generosity of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow and through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.142
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Burglind Jungmann, Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 2004), pp. 164-165, fig. 75

Subjects and Contexts

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  • Google Art Project

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