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Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Boating in Moonlight

월하주행도 (月下舟行圖)

1600s

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

Album leaf, ink on silk

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.)

John L. Severance Fund 1989.87

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Look how many objects are contained in this little boat—a potted plant, a book, a pear-shaped lute, a tiered lunch box, a tea pot, and a portable stove.

Provenance
?-1989
(The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989
(Joseph P. Carroll, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 80, cat. no. 50
Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
Narrative Figure Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty [조선 시대 고사 인물화]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2016.
Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.87