Ju Se-bung Portrait

This is a portrait of the Joseon-period civil official Ju Se-bung (1495–1554), copied from the original held at the National Museum of Korea. It measures 100 cm wide and 150 cm high, painted in light colours on a silk ground patterned with plum blossom and bamboo. It is a full-length seated portrait showing the subject neatly seated in a chair, wearing the official robes worn while attending to duties. He sits on a chair draped with a tiger skin, the colours of the hide harmonising well with the green of his official robes. His seated pose, wearing a black official hat, appears somewhat awkward, and the outline of the face is not sharply defined, suggesting the work is not by an outstanding painter; the full face, large eyes and nose, and heavy eyebrows give an impression more like that of a military man. The original portrait, painted when the subject was 58, was recopied by his descendants in 1919. Gwangpunggak, the pavilion where the painting is preserved, is said to have been built at that time by his twelfth-generation descendant Ju Hak-pyo specifically to house the painting.

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Where it is

Region

Haman, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산