Cho Jae-ho from Punhyang Cho Family
These two portraits are of members of the Cho family, which originated from the area of Pungyang. Cho Jae-ho (1702-1762) on the left is the cousin of Cho Hyun-myeong on the right. Both were High State Councilors, called yeong-uijeong, and the Cho family ordered these two portraits as a family honor. Korean portraits were copied for sharing at each family Confucian ritual; similar portraits are still in the collection of the Cho family in Korea.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1800s
- Dimensions
- image: height 0.356 m, width 0.273 m; mounted: height 0.444 m, width 0.332 m
- Department
- Korean Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- John L. Severance Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Individual Portrait Both · 99%
The image shows one formally presented sitter, and the museum catalog identifies the work as a portrait of Cho Jae-ho.
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Face Visual · 99%
The sitter’s face occupies the central focus of the composition and is rendered with detailed eyes, nose, mouth, skin, mustache, and beard.
Visual Qualities
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Symmetrical Visual · 94%
The sitter is centered and presented with a strongly balanced left-right arrangement, especially in the hat wings and broad robe, producing a near-symmetrical composition.
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Highly Detailed Visual · 94%
The portrait contains fine facial, hair, costume, and hat-pattern details rendered through numerous delicate lines.
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Patterns Visual · 95%
The hat’s horizontally extended side wings contain repeated curvilinear and geometric ornamental motifs.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 100%
The museum classifies the object as a painting and specifies an album painting executed in ink and color on silk.
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Album, Folio and Fan Formats Metadata · 99%
The catalog explicitly describes the work as an album painting.
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Frontal Perspective Visual · 98%
The head and body face directly toward the viewer rather than being shown in profile or in action.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to the 1800s, with a cataloged range of 1800–1899.
Geographic Regions
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Asian Art Metadata · 95%
The work’s place of origin is Korea, Joseon dynasty, and the museum classifies it within Korean Art; the closest available regional catalog category is Asian Art.
Materials
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Natural Fibers Metadata · 90%
The catalog specifies silk as the support; silk is a natural fiber, although the supplied image cannot independently verify the fiber composition.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Cho Jae-ho from Punhyang Cho Family. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 4,709 × 6,088 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available