Landscape (1800s): Art, History and Details

Landscape (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画). Generally, painters of the Southern school worked with monochrome ink and light colors, emphasizing calligraphic brushstrokes.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) or Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Ink and color on paper
• Dimensions: Overall: 182.6 x 74.2 cm (71 7/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1915.217

A detail from the museum

The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画), a stylistic term used to refer to intentionally unpolished amateur painting popular across East Asia around the late 1700s and afterwards.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.