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Portraits of Cho Hyun-myeong and Cho Jae-ho

조현명·조재호 초상 (趙顯命·趙載浩肖像)

early 1800s

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Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

Album painting, ink and color on silk

Image: 35.6 x 27.3 cm (14 x 10 3/4 in.); Mounted: 44.4 x 33.2 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1999.15

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

These two men belonged to the Pungyang Cho Clan, one of the most important political power houses in 18th-century Korea.

Description

These two portraits are of members of the Cho family, which originated from the area of Pungyang. Cho Jae-ho (1702-1762) on the left is the cousin of Cho Hyun-myeong on the right. Both were High State Councilors, called yeong-uijeong, and the Cho family ordered these two portraits as a family honor. Korean portraits were copied for sharing at each family Confucian ritual; similar portraits are still in the collection of the Cho family in Korea.

Citations
Cho, Sun-mie. Great Korean Portraits. Seoul: Dolbegae Publishers, 2010.
Cho, Sun-mie. Portrait Paintings in Korea [한국초상화 연구]. Seoul: Youlhwadang, 1983.
Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
Portraits of the Joseon Period [조선 시대 초상화]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2007.
Korea portraits from the collection of the National Museum [한국의초상화 : 국립중앙박물관소장조선시대초상화특별전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1979.
Yi Tae-ho. "Portrait of Joseon Period [조선시대의 초상화]." Misulsa Yeongu: Journal of Art History, vol. 12 (December, 1998): 207-224. www.dbpia.co.kr
Kang, Kwan-sik and Tae-ho Yi. "Image of Figure, Image of Mind: The Portrait of Gentleman in Joseon Period [조선시대 초상화의 圖像과 心像: 조선 중후기 선비 초상화의 修己的 의미를 통해서 본 再現的 圖像의 實存的 의미와 기능에 대한 성찰]." Art History, vol. 15 (August 2001): 7-55. www.dbpia.co.kr
Kang, Kwan-sik. "The Hair and Eye Ritual Assumption and Modelistio Theme for Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty [털과 눈: 조선시대 초상화의 祭儀的 命題와 造形的 課題]." Korean Journal of Art History (December 2005): 95-129. www.dbpia.co.kr
Kang, Kwan-sik. "Five Codes for the Reading Portraits of Joseon [조선시대 초상화를 읽는 다섯 가지 코드]." Misulsahakbo: Reviews on the Art History, no. 38 (June 2012): 135-183. www.dbpia.co.kr
Yi, Yon-suk. "Formation of DaeChongChung of Poongyang Cho Family and Publication of Family Genealogy during the 18th and 19th Centuries [18∼19세기 풍양조씨의 대종중 형성과 족보간행]." Journal of Korean Classics, vol. 43 (June, 2014): 335-370. www.dbpia.co.kr
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