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ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)
Gathering of Government Officials
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm.)
$60,000-80,000
The subject of this rare painting, recently discovered in a Japanese
collection, is a gathering of eight officials in an idyllic setting on
a bluff overlooking a lake or a large river. The painting is in the
style of An Gyeon (active ca. 1440-70), but differs from others of
the period in that it has fewer landscape elements. One painting
attributed to An Gyeon School in the collection of the National
Museum of Korea, Seoul, that represents gathering of officials at
the Board of Defense, is visually similar to this one, and the date
of 1541 indicate that such gatherings and associated paintings were
well established by the first half of the sixteenth century (accession
number, Sinsu 13555). The title and list of attendees might have
been cropped.
