Portrait of Jeong Tak

The Portrait of Jeong Tak depicts Yakpo Jeong Tak, a civil official of the mid-Joseon period, and measures 89 cm wide and 167 cm high. Jeong Tak (1526–1605) was a disciple of Yi Hwang; he passed the state examination in the thirteenth year of King Myeongjong (1558) and took part in compiling the Annals of King Myeongjong. Painted in the thirty-seventh year of King Seonjo (1604), the portrait is a full-length seated image showing the subject wearing the official cap worn while on duty and a purple silk official robe bearing a rank badge embroidered with two cranes on the chest, seated and looking to the right. His white beard is rendered clearly, and the outlines of his face are drawn in fine lines of pale red. The cloud pattern on the official robe is coloured in a dark shade, and the creases of the clothing are rendered not realistically but in an idealised, conventional manner, an approach also seen to some degree in other portraits of the period. The floor, too, is coloured, giving the portrait a sense of stability, and it is a typical example of the meritorious-subject portraits of the Joseon period.

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Region

Yecheon, Gyeongbuk

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Treasure · 보물