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Lot Essay
This painting reflects Korean ideals and taste initiated by the most original court painter of the early Choson period, the great master An Kyon (active ca. 1440-70). An Kyon's style was strongly influenced by the Chinese Northern Song monumental landscape tradition as transformed in the post-Yuan period.
The pavilions in the upper left are detailed in red. The pictorial elements of this complex painting are remarkably similar to three of a set of four (the fourth is now missing) anonymous 16th century hanging scrolls depicting the Four Seasons and the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, now in the Mori Museum in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, illustrated in Richo no kaiga (Choson-Dynasty Painting) (Nara:Yamato Bunkakan, 1996), pl. 5. The set has been handed down in the Mori family, feudal lords of western Japan, as the work of the Song-Dynasty Chinese artist Mi Youren (1072?-1151?) but are now recognized as a Korean work of the Choson period.
The pavilions in the upper left are detailed in red. The pictorial elements of this complex painting are remarkably similar to three of a set of four (the fourth is now missing) anonymous 16th century hanging scrolls depicting the Four Seasons and the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, now in the Mori Museum in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, illustrated in Richo no kaiga (Choson-Dynasty Painting) (Nara:Yamato Bunkakan, 1996), pl. 5. The set has been handed down in the Mori family, feudal lords of western Japan, as the work of the Song-Dynasty Chinese artist Mi Youren (1072?-1151?) but are now recognized as a Korean work of the Choson period.