Highlights
"A Tavern" from the Album of Genre Paintings by Kim Hong-do
- Nationality/Period
Joseon Dynasty
- Materials
Paper
- Author
Kim Hong-do(金弘道, 1745-after 1806)
- Category
Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting
- Dimensions
28.0x23.9cm(Image, Album)
- Designation
Treasure 527
- Accession Number
Bongwan 6504 - 8
A traveling middle-aged couple is appeasing their hunger at a tavern. The appearance of the tavern lady ladling out drinks for her customers and various rice and wine vessels on the cooking platform create a vivid representation of the taverns of that time. The landscape in the foreground is captured in reverse perspective, which helps increase the sense of reality.