Tigers and Leopard Frolicking
Unknown Artist
1700s
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
208.3 × 193.4 cm · painting only: 91.4 × 163.8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Leighton R. and Rosemarie Longhi
Accession Number
1998.292
About this artwork
This monochrome composition depicts a tiger and her young playing at stalking one another in a stand of pine. Tigers, considered messengers of mountain spirits, and are often paired with leopards, mistakenly thought to be baby tigers. The signature written at the upper left of the painting reads "The mountain recluse of Honam," possibly referring to a painter from Jeolla province in Korea.