Hunting Scene
The theme of nomad warriors riding horses and hunting wild animals was first painted in the Qing imperial court in China in late 1600s. But it became favored by the Korean royal court and painted by the royal court painter in the late 1700s. The Joseon Korean ruling class members considered Qing nomad warriors to be "barbaric," yet highly admired their hunting and military skills. By the late 1800s, folding screens with the hunting scene were used largely for this dynamic and exotic feature.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1800s
- Dimensions
- overall: height 2.146 m, width 3.454 m; each screen: height 1.424 m, width 0.414 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
- Gift of Leighton R. and Rosemarie Longhi
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Equestrian Both · 99%
Mounted riders and horses are prominent throughout the image, and the catalog explicitly describes nomad warriors riding horses and hunting.
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Animals Both · 95%
The image visibly includes numerous horses and other small animals, while the catalog identifies hunting wild animals as the subject's central theme.
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Landscapes Visual · 99%
Layered mountain ridges, winding hills, trees, and wooded terrain occupy the continuous painted field across all eight panels.
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Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art Metadata · 78%
The catalog traces the hunting-screen theme to the Qing imperial court in China and describes its later adoption and popularity in the Korean royal court; this supports an art-historical relation to traditional Chinese art without asserting a specific artist's intent.
Visual Qualities
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Scattered Composition Visual · 93%
Riders and small groups are dispersed across the broad landscape, with denser clusters concentrated in parts of the right half rather than a single central focal group.
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Earth Tones Visual · 96%
The landscape is dominated by muted tan, brown, ochre, and gray-green tones, with brighter red, blue, and green accents in figures, banners, and foliage.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the object as a painting made with ink and color on silk.
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Screen Format Both · 99%
The catalog identifies an eight-panel folding screen, and the image clearly shows a broad format divided by eight vertical panel seams.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to the 1800s, within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Asian Art Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art classifies the work as Korean Art and identifies its place of origin as Korea during the Joseon dynasty.
Materials
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Natural Fibers Metadata · 96%
The catalog identifies silk as the support; silk is a natural fiber, although the fiber cannot be confirmed from the image alone.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Hunting Scene. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 22,500 × 11,907 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available