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Find the scholar seated in his pavilion among the bare trees, then cross the water to the long, empty bridge in the distance and the small boat below it.
A scholar sits alone in his studio among bare trees, between snowy cliffs and a wide stretch of still water. The Cleveland Museum of Art counts this scroll of 1584 among the rare paintings to survive from the early Joseon period. Kim Si lived as a recluse after his father fell from power, and the museum reads the scene less as an ideal retreat than as his own state of mind, his family’s glory long past.
hanging scroll; ink on silk · Painting only: 53 x 67.3 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Snowscape with Figures
- Artist
- Kim Si (Korean, 1524–1593)
- Date
- 1584
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 53 x 67.3 cm (20 7/8 x 26 1/2 in.); Overall: 148.6 x 90.2 cm (58 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1524–1593
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.