Painting of One Hundred Themes
late 1800s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Painting of One Hundred Themes, late 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk; overall: 117.7 x 335 cm (46 5/16 x 131 7/8 in.); painting only: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.286 The way of displaying small images of various subjects became one of the most popular type of painting toward the end of the 19th century.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
- Medium
- ten-panel, folding, screen, affixed, album, leaves, obverse, calligraphy, reverse, ink, color, silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 117.7 x 335 cm (46 5/16 x 131 7/8 in.); Painting only: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1998.286
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gordon K. Mott
- Exhibitions
- The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art, Old and New in Korean Art (Korean art rotation), <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 12-July 20, 2015).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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