Landscape with Streams and Mountains
Unknown Artist
late 1700s or early 1800s
Medium
Ink and color on paper with a silk border
Dimensions
68.5 × 50.7 cm · painting only: 65.6 × 45.9 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Accession Number
1915.216
About this artwork
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.