Kim Gyeong-ho Portrait of Tongdosa Temple, Yangsan

This work is a portrait of Kim Gyeong-ho, who held the rank of gaseon-daebu, a senior second-grade civil office rank of the Joseon dynasty, shown as a full-length figure seated in a chair and facing forward. His skin is painted in flesh tones with the outlines drawn in vermilion, and vermilion shading is applied along the contours of the face and body to render depth, the broadly shaded forehead and eyebrows being especially striking. The upper eyelid lines are drawn in fine strokes of dense ink and the lower eyelid lines in fine vermilion strokes; the inner and outer corners of the eyes are shaded with pale ink, and a dot of dense ink is placed at the centre of the brown irises to represent the pupils. The roots of the eyebrows and beard are first spread with pale ink and then rendered with fine strokes of dense ink and fine white lines, while the roots of the ear hair are drawn in fine strokes of dense ink without shading, giving the face a slight variation in texture.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산