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Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust · The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) · late 1700s or early 1800s

Landscape with Streams and Mountains

Creator not recorded by the museum

Date
late 1700s or early 1800s
Medium
Ink and color on paper with a silk border
Dimensions
Painting only: 65.6 x 45.9 cm (25 13/16 x 18 1/16 in.); Overall: 68.5 x 50.7 cm (26 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Country / context
Korea
Movement / tradition
Korean arts
Collection
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Pathway
Korean arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM

The tradition of landscape painting that details actual natural sites and captures their topographic features in Korea began in the 1700s and continued onward. Such landscape style based actual sites and the artist's observation is called True-view landscape painting.

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