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A Scholar Contemplating the Water

Artwork · Kang Hŭian · 15th century · album leaf

The famous painting of Kang Hŭian (1419–1464), scholar-painter and deputy leader of the embassy to Ming China in 1455: a scholar leaning on a rock gazes at the water — close to the Ming Zhe school in its cliffs and the importance of the figure. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 130–131, fig. 67. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.