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"title": "Portrait of an Official",
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"id": 695133,
"title": "Provenance: Journeys of Korean Art",
"description": "Provenance: Journeys of Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10, 2026-April 25, 2027).",
"opening_date": "2026-05-10T04:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 12, 2013-January 28, 2014).",
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"description": "National Palace Museum, Seoul, South Korea (September 11-October 13, 2019).",
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"description": "(The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, NY, sold to the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD)",
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"date": "?\u20131998",
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"description": "The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, New York, NY",
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"did_you_know": "A piece of leopard skin covering the chair is a typical gift from the royal court to court officials.",
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"description": "The quest of capturing one\u2019s spirit through imagery held a special place in the tradition of portrait making in East Asia. A portrait\u2019s resemblance to the subject was considered to be a way to transmit the sitter\u2019s spirit to the viewer. A three-quarter view, much preferred in Joseon-period portraits like this one, allows the viewer to examine the sitter\u2019s personality or spirit without an exchange of glances.
Dressed in a pale pink court uniform, the gentleman sits on a chair draped with leopard skin, a symbol of royal favor. Due to the missing inscription, which was likely trimmed off, we cannot identify him. Yet, we know a few things: His uniform informs us that he worked in the royal court sometime during the 1700s or later because the color of office uniforms changed from dark green to pale pink in the early 1700s. Considered to be an important historical family relic, this type of full-length portrait was often placed above the spirit house and venerated during ancestral worship rituals.",
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"citation": "Cho, Sun-mie. Portrait Paintings in Korea [\ud55c\uad6d\ucd08\uc0c1\ud654 \uc5f0\uad6c]. Seoul: Youlhwadang, 1983.",
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"citation": "Yi, Tae-ho. Realism in Late-Joseon Period Painting [\uc870\uc120 \ud6c4\uae30 \ud68c\ud654 \uc758 \uc0ac\uc2e4 \uc815\uc2e0. Seoul: Hakkojae, 1996.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cMajor Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,\u201d June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4262"
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"citation": "Portraits of the Joseon Period [\uc870\uc120 \uc2dc\ub300 \ucd08\uc0c1\ud654]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2007.",
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"citation": "Cho, Sun-mie. Great Korean Portraits. Seoul: Dolbegae Publishers, 2010.",
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"citation": "Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.",
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"citation": "Kim, Yeong-ju. \"Study on Joseon-Period Korean Portraits in Formatted in Hanging Scroll [\uc870\uc120\uc2dc\ub300 \ucd08\uc0c1\ud654 \uc871\uc790\uc758 \ud615\uc2dd\uc5d0 \ub300\ud55c \uc5f0\uad6c].\" Misul sahak no. 28 (2014): 61\u201395.",
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"citation": "The Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation. \"Support for Conservation and Use of the Korean Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8, and An Min-hu\u0306i, ed., 320\u2013323. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
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"citation": "Jung-Jae Conservation Center. \"The Conservation Report on Two Korean Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of a Scholar Official.\" In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8, and An Min-hu\u0306i, ed., 334\u2013345. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
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