Yeongjeong gyehoedo (Gathering of Officials at Lotus Pavilion)

The Yeongjeong gyehoedo is a gyehoedo, a painting recording a gathering, depicting literati of the same office meeting to foster friendship and enjoy refined pursuits. Painted on silk in light, fresh colours, it measures 59 cm wide and 94 cm high. Such paintings typically record the name of the gathering at the top, the gathering scene in the middle, and the participants' names and clan seats at the bottom, but here everything except the gathering scene has been cut away, so the specific details of the gathering and its participants are unknown. Against a landscape background, seven participants are seated in a circle indoors, with women seated in a row to their right. Since a pond lies in front of the pavilion where the gathering takes place, the work has come to be called Yeongjeong gyehoedo, Gathering of Officials at Lotus Pavilion. Produced in the mid-sixteenth century, the painting gives the gathering scene almost equal prominence to the landscape background, in marked contrast to earlier Joseon gyehoedo, which represented the gathering scene only symbolically within the landscape. It can therefore be regarded as a transitional work bridging early and mid-Joseon gyehoedo.

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Where it is

Region

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

Designation

Treasure · 보물