# Boating in Moonlight

- Date: 1600s
- Medium: album leaf; ink on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 30 x 26.3 cm (11 13/16 x 10 3/8 in.); Overall: 34.9 x 30.6 cm (13 3/4 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.87)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.87/1989.87_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Painted in bold brushstrokes and ink wash, contrasting black and white, and occupied and voided space, this intimately sized painting depicts a scholar-hermit enjoying elegant boating under moonlight. The theme of a moonlight boat excursion below a cliff depicted in this work echoes the tradition of illustrating "Ode to the Red Cliff," a pair of poems by Su Shi, famous Northern Song Chinese poet (1037–1101).