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About the Artwork
First produced around the second half of the eighteenth century, chaekgado (literally, “pictures of bookshelves”) flourished throughout the 1800s as a royal emblem. And soon this pictorial genre became a popular furnishing item for aristocrats' elegant studies. The third panel from the right bears a hidden seal that reveals the artist: Yi Taek-gyun, a prominent court artist active in the late 1800s.
Exhibition history
Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 5-November 5, 2017). Pattern and Decoration in Royal Art of the Joseon Dynasty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 2024-March 16, 2025).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Yi Taek-gyun (Korean, 1808–after 1883)
- Date
- late 1800s
- Medium
- ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 197.5 x 395 cm (77 3/4 x 155 1/2 in.); Painting only: 139.3 x 330.8 cm (54 13/16 x 130 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Korean Art
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 2011.37
Provenance
March 23, 2011: (Christie's New York, Japanese & Korean Art, New York, NY, 23 March 2011, lot 992, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2011–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009257
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