Pungaknaesan chongramdo (풍악내산총람도 楓岳內山摠覽圖) is a famous landscape painted by

Jeong Seon Jeong Seon ( ko, 정선) (1676 – 20 April 1759) was a Korean landscape painter, also known by the pen name Kyomjae. His ''cha'' was Wonbaek and another ''ho'' was Nangok. His works include ink and oriental water paintings, such as ''Inwangjes ...

during the reign of

King Yeongjo Yeongjo of Joseon (31 October 1694 – 22 April 1776), personal name Yi Geum (Korean: 이금, Hanja: 李昑), was the 21st monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of King Sukjong, by his concubine Royal Noble Consort Suk ...

. The title literally means "Overview of Mt. Pungak", the Autumn name of the Diamond Mountains. The painting is housed at the

Gansong Art Museum The Gansong Art Museum, located in Seongbuk-dong, Seongbuk District, Seoul, South Korea, is the first modern private museum of Korea and was founded by Jeon Hyeongpil (전형필 全鎣弼) in 1938. The museum was named after the pen name of the fo ...

Analysis

Jeong Seon produced many paintings of Mt. Geumgangsan. This painting is special, due to the choice of the season (Autumn). Moreover, quite all remarkable places are explicitly named. The painting is of Naegeumgang, the Inner Mt. Geumgangsan and is obviously to be compared with the

Geumgang jeondo Geumgang jeondo (금강전도 金剛全圖) is a famous landscape painted by Jeong Seon during the reign of Yeongjo of Joseon, King Yeongjo. The title literally means "General view of Mt. Kumgangsan, Geumgangsan" or The Diamond Mountains). It was c ...

. On the bottom right, one can see a preeminent representation of the Rainbow bridge (Bihong—gyo, 飛虹橋), an arched bridge near the Changansa Temple. As documented by several scholar-officials who traveled in the area, however, this bridge was destroyed by flood in 1723. This rather indicates that the painting was done from sketches previously drawn, in the 1711-1712 travels to Geumgangsan, rather than painted from an immediate view in the 1740s. In this case, ''true-view landscape painting'' should be perceived as ''진경산수화, 眞景山水畵, jinkyung landscape painting'', meaning truthful-painting and not as ''실경산수화, 實景山水畵'' meaning real-view. The next travel of Jeong Seon to Mt. Geumgang was in 1747. 400px, left, places named in the painting (full picture is 5810px × 8017px)

Sources

#Gang Gwansik #KAA. original seems dead #MET.
catalog of the June 5, 1998—Jan. 24, 1999 exhibition. (fully available online as PDF). #Gansong Museum.

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{{Reflist, 2 Joseon dynasty Korean painting

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