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Goshawk Standing on a Perch
View: With mount
Falcon on a Perch
Goshawk Standing on a Perch
Attributed to: Yi Am (Korean, 1499 – after 1546)
Korean
Joseon dynasty
16th century
Medium/Technique
Ink, color, and gold on silk; rosewood endknobs (Dalbergia Oliveri)
Dimensions
Image: 98.1 × 54.2 cm (38 5/8 × 21 5/16 in.)
Overall (including jiku and hanging braid): 208.3 × 72.3 cm (82 × 28 7/16 in.)
Overall (including jiku and hanging braid): 208.3 × 72.3 cm (82 × 28 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6164
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA Highlights: Arts of Korea (2012), p. 119; Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600 (MMA, 2009), pp. 85-89; Wu, Tales from the Land of Dragons (MFA, 1997), pp. 219-220 & color pl. pp. 110-111
Marks
6 seals "Two of the six seals in the top left corner of the scroll relate to Yi Am (the second seal reads du seong-ryeong (杜城令）, his official title, the fourth wansan （完山), his ancestral hometown; the thir seal, in the shape of a Chinese bronze vessel (ding), is similar to a seal found on his other works, including Moother dog and Puppies. "
(Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600, The Metropolitan museum of Art, 2009)
(Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600, The Metropolitan museum of Art, 2009)
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.