Portrait of Yun Geup

This is a portrait of the late Joseon official Yun Geup, sobriquet Geunam (1697–1770), shown as a full-length figure wearing a gauze cap (samo) and black robe with a round collar (heuk dallyeong), seated half turned to the right in a chair covered with animal skin, his hands folded before him. Given that he wears a rank badge with paired cranes and a rhinoceros-horn belt, the portrait is thought to have been painted around 1762, the thirty-eighth year of King Yeongjo, when Yun Geup, then sixty-six, rose to first rank on serving as Panuigeumbusa (Chief of the Uigeumbu). O Se-chang's Geunyeok seohwajing (Compendium of Korean Calligraphy and Painting) quotes a record of a "Hwajae hwajeong" noting that Byeon Sang-byeok painted a portrait of Yun Geup, suggesting that this portrait is indeed the work of Byeon Sang-byeok, the foremost royal portrait painter of his day. It is a fine work, meticulously depicting even the moles, age spots and reddish flush of the face, and its hanging-scroll mounting retains its original late 18th-century form well, adding further to its importance. Dimensions (height × width): 152.3 × 82.6 cm (painted area), 220.2 × 105.2 cm (overall).

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Where it is

Region

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

Designation

Treasure · 보물