Ikjae Portrait

This is a portrait of Yi Je-hyeon, pen name Ikjae (1287–1367), a scholar of the late Goryeo period. Yi Je-hyeon lectured on the classics together with Zhao Mengfu and others at the Mangwondang, an academy King Chungseon had established in Yuan China, rose in office to the post of Munhasijung (chief state councillor), and in his later years compiled the veritable records (sillok) by royal command. He also played an important role in spreading and developing Neo-Confucianism, and left behind many writings, including Ikjae nango, Ikjaejip, and Yeogong paeseol. Four portraits of him are known to survive, and this is one of them: a full-length portrait showing him seated in a chair, facing left. He wears a simui, a scholar's robe with wide sleeves bordered in silk, his hands clasped together and tucked inside his sleeves. The painter is unknown; tradition holds that it was made in 1688, the thirteenth year of King Sukjong of Joseon, and kept at Gugang Seowon, a Confucian academy, which suggests that it was copied from an earlier version now held by the National Museum of Korea, or from the Gasan Seowon version.

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Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료