Cleveland Museum of Art
Scholar Playing a Qin
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Department
- Korean Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 155625
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The painting invites viewers to an intimate qin, or zither, recital in the cool breezy night under the moon. The musician at the center gently strums the strings, while his servant boy is drowsing, without realizing the tea pot is steaming. In older times, playing a musical instrument was considered an effective way to cultivate one's spiritual and mental balance. The Korean zither with six strings, depicted in this painting, was often played by men.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1990: (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland) | 1990–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Chinese landscape paintingsThese are predominantly Chinese paintings from the Ming, Qing, Yuan, and Song dynasties that depict natural landscape scenes including mountains, rivers, forests, and human settlements using traditional media such as ink
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