Landscape with Streams and Mountains

late 1700s or early 1800s

Medium
Ink and color on paper with a silk border
Classification
Painting
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.)
Culture
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
Credit line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this 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.