Imeunimingon Portrait

Yi Min-gon (1695–1756) was a civil official of the late Joseon period. His clan seat was Jeonju, and his pen name was Imeun. Two portraits of Yi Min-gon have come down to us: one shows him in official robes, the other in scholar's robes. Producing such paired portraits became fashionable from the late seventeenth century onward, and comparable examples survive among the Gyeonggi-do Tangible Cultural Heritage portraits of Park Se-dang, Jang Man, Park Se-chae and Yi In-yeop. In the official-robes portrait, Yi Min-gon's head is turned slightly to the right. He sits with his hands folded before him in the gongsu posture, on a chair covered with a leopard skin, his feet set side by side on a footrest. On his chest is a rank badge embroidered with a single crane, and his face, rendered with heavy use of white pigment, appears very pale. In the scholar's-robes portrait he is shown seated with his hands folded and his knees resting on the floor. His features, contours and wrinkles were first outlined in faint ink lines and then coloured in subdued tones. The folds of his robes were likewise outlined in fine ink lines, coloured jade-green and shaded to suggest volume. There is no background at all; inscriptions fill the empty spaces at the upper right and left of the picture. The two surviving portraits of Yi Min-gon are imo — copies made after the nineteenth century from earlier originals of the official-robes and scholar's-robes types. The painter who produced these copies is thought to have been a monk-painter active at a Buddhist temple or similar institution.

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Yeoju, Gyeonggi

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료