Landscape with Streams and Mountains (late 1700s or early 1800s): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Streams and Mountains (late 1700s or early 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Streams and Mountains
• Date: late 1700s or early 1800s
• Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: Korean Art
• Department: Korean Art
• Accession number: 1915.216

A detail from the museum

Topographic landscape painting such as this hanging scroll became popular in Korea during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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.
• Through the Eyes of Joseon Painters: Real Scenery Landscapes of Korea [화가의시선: 조선시대실경산수화]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2019.

View the collection record

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