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a black drawing on yellow paper showing branches, leaves, and small, oval berries.

This 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
Yi Che-hyŏn (also known as Yul-ch'on), Korean (born 1586)
Title
Fruiting Grape Branch
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, album leaf
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
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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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