Hwaakdang Hall Taeyeong Portrait

This portrait depicts Hwaakdang Hall Taeyeong seated cross-legged on the floor, shown in a left three-quarter profile (jwaan chilbunmyeon). The upper part of the background has a three-panel folding screen painted with a chrysanthemum pattern, and a straw mat is spread below; beside the figure a scripture lies open and a low writing desk is placed at an angle. He wears a blue jangsam, the monk's long inner robe, together with a red kasaya, the outer vestment, fastened with three knotted straps. In his left hand he holds a monk's staff painted with a wood-grain pattern, and in his right hand he lightly grasps a red string of prayer beads. To the right of the picture is an inscription, to the left a eulogy, and at the bottom an ink inscription on a vermilion ground recording the production, showing that the work was made in 1853, the third year of Xianfeng. The picture measures 80.7 cm wide and 121.3 cm tall.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산