Deer amid pine trees
소나무 아래 사슴 조선
松下雙鹿圖 朝鮮
Deer, pine trees and eternal mashrooms
Depicting idyllic landscapes, the two scrolls displayed here celebrate auspicious imagery, especially deer and pine trees. Originally they were probably part of a set featuring the ten symbols of longevity. The blue and green landscape setting also carries a favorable meaning: it evokes an archaic style associated with a golden age in China to which later artistic traditions throughout East Asia often alluded.
The pictorial theme of the ten symbols of longevity was especially fashionable in Korea during the Joseon dynasty, and most extant works date to the nineteenth century. Painted or embroidered folding screens on the subject were initially produced for the royal court to display at palace events. The appealing motifs also filtered into folk paintings.
Unidentified Korean artist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art <br /><br />http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78286
19th century
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013
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Two hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
Painting
Accession Number:2013.29a, b
Shipjang-001
Ship jangsaeng do
십장생도(十長生圖)
Ten items symbolizing longivity - mushroom of eternity, deer, crane, bamboo, cloud, sun, rock and pine tree.
Paintings of ten items symbolizing longivity. Rocks are placed around the edge of the painting and the big pine tree is painted in the center. The mushroom of eternity, crane, bamboo, cloud and sun is in the painting.
장수를 상징하는 십장생을 그린 그림. 지본채색(紙本彩色). 액자형(세로 155.6, 가로 74). 가장자리에 암석을 배치하고, 그 안에 커다란 소나무를 그려 넣음. 주변에 불로초와 사슴·학·대나무·구름·해 등의 십장생이 어우러져 그려짐. 뒷면 상단에 쇠로 된 고리가 달려 있음.
Unidentified Korean artist
National Folk Museum of Korea <br />국립민속박물관 <br /><br />http://www.nfm.go.kr/Others/search_solo.jsp
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Ink and color on paper
Painting
소장품번호 민속 031254
Shipjang-002