Haseokbakjeong Pavilion Portrait

Bak Jeong's clan seat was Bannam, and his pen name was Haseok. In 1623, the first year of King Injo, he took part in the Injo Restoration and was awarded merit-subject status of the third rank as a Jeongsa Gongsin (Meritorious Subject for Stabilising the State). Two portraits of Bak Jeong survive today: one is a full-length seated portrait showing him wearing a samo (an official's black horsehair cap) and a blue dallyeong (round-collared official robe); the other shows him seated in a chair wearing a green dallyeong patterned with clouds. The blue-robe version is badly damaged, so that only the face and the rank badge belong to the original, the rest having been patched with added silk and repainted. The green-robe version is a copy (imobon) painted by reproducing the face from the blue-robe version while altering the official robe. When Bak Jeong was awarded merit-subject status in 1623 he held the third senior rank. Part of the upper section and a considerable part of the lower section of the silk have been lost, so that only about a third of the whole retains its original form. A notable feature is that, rather than dwelling on fine detail, the outline of the face and the features are captured using line drawing alone. The green-robe version is presumed to be a copy made using the blue-robe version as its model. In it he wears a hakjeong-geumdae (a gold belt with a crane-crest ornament) corresponding to the junior second rank; a leopard skin is draped over the back of the chair, and no patterned floor covering is depicted. The side slits on both sides of the dallyeong are shown simultaneously, a feature that appears in official-robe portraits from the eighteenth century onward; on this basis, the portrait can be presumed to have been copied in the first half of the eighteenth century. The green-robe version is thus an example in which, when copied in the first half of the eighteenth century, the face was reproduced from the original while the costume was rendered according to the portrait conventions of that time. The Portrait of Bak Jeong (Haseok) is a useful resource for examining the various forms that copied portraits can take.

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Region

Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산