id: 152317 accession number: 1985.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.18 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:31.527000 Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; image: 112.6 x 57.5 cm (44 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.); overall: 174.5 x 77.5 cm (68 11/16 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1985.18 title: Lotuses, Insects, and Birds title in original language: 연화백로도 (蓮花白鷺圖) series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Korean Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 112.6 x 57.5 cm (44 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.); Overall: 174.5 x 77.5 cm (68 11/16 x 30 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). title: Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art opening date: 1992-09-22T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 1992-January 3, 1993). title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). title: Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea opening date: 2020-03-07T05:00:00 Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 25, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 12, 2015). --- PROVENANCE (Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Given its subject matter of lotus flowers, herons, kingfisher, and dragonflies, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer. digital description: wall description: Pairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Given its subject matter, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: cat. no. 47 url: Cha, Mi-ae. "The Volume Three of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting and Late Joseon-Period Bird and Flower Paintings [芥子園畵傳 3집과 조선 후기 화조화]." Misulsa yeongu (2012): 53-86. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE02080795 Yi, Eun-ha. "Naturalism in Late Joseon-Period Bird and Flower Paintings [조선후기 화조화의 形寫性]." Hangukhak yeogu (2013): 65-91. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE02200350 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.18/1985.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.18/1985.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.18/1985.18_full.tif