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Trial
in the Street
Korea,
Choson period, mid 1700s
ink and color on paper, 27 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (69.9 x 38.7
cm)
Asian
Art Department Acquisition Fund
1972.65.2
Second
Painting
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This
typical Korean genre painting focuses attention on a common scene
of country life. A clerk is shown writing down the case described
by the two villagers at bottom left. The appearance of the magistrate
on a sedan chair shaded by a parasol suggests that somewhat arbitrary
judgment will be passed once he has read the clerk’s summary.
This was probably in a series of similar scenes from a folding
screen. A second painting in the series, showing a picnic,
is also in the collection.
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