Resting under a Tree Collection of Paintings Attributed to Yi Gyoik
The image on display is part of an album of twenty-nine paintings depicting flowers, grasses, and butterflies attributed to Yi Gyoik. Featured across the two leaves, this genre painting illustrates a scholar wearing a black, wide-brimmed hat (gat) and a round-necked robe (po), a bare-chested man sitting next to a Korean A-frame carrier (jige), and a man with unkempt hair. All of them are smoking while taking a rest under a tree. Here, Yi skillfully captured the characteristics of these figures by portraying them in different clothes and poses and with distinctive facial expressions.
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