1994.104: Fruiting Grape Branch
PaintingsThis is a black painting on yellow paper with a darkened crease mark vertically throught the center of the sheet. The image is of branches, leaves, and small oval berries. There are two clusters of leaves at the top center and top left of the image that are connected by thin branches. There are two more clusters of leaves at the bottom center and right center of the image that are connected by a thicker darker branch. In the bottom right corner there is a cluster of eighteen, oval shaped berries. More berries are obscured by the leaves higher up on the image.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1994.104
- People
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Yi Che-hyŏn (also known as Yul-ch'on), Korean (born 1586)
- Title
- Fruiting Grape Branch
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- album leaf, painting
- Date
- first half 17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Period
- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219588
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- painting proper: H. 37.5 x W. 43.5 cm (14 3/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Nelson Goodman (1906-1998), Newton, MA (by 1994), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- #054
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 1994
- Object Number
- 1994.104
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 72-73
- Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
- James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 15
Exhibition History
- The Arts of Korea, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/11/1992 - 01/31/1993
- Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996
- A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000
- A Compelling Legacy: Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/24/2004 - 03/20/2005
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2015 - 11/29/2015
Verification Level
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