Portrait of Yi Je-hyeon
1319 painting of Yi Chehyon
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The portrait of Yi Je-hyeon (Korean: 이제현 초상; Hanja: 李齊賢 肖像) is a portrait of a Goryeo politician and neo-Confucian scholar Yi Chehyŏn.[1] As a rare piece of the remaining portrait from the Goryeo period, it was designated as the 110th National Treasure of South Korea in 1962.[1]
1319 painting of scholar Yi Chehyon | |
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| Coordinates | 37.5242°N 126.9803°E |
| Completion date | 1319 |
| Designated | 1962-12-20 |
| Reference no. | 110 |
Two poems are written above the portrait, one by Yi himself and the other by the famed Yuan writer Tang Binglong.[1][2] It is said that he was attending King Chungseon (1275–1325) to visit Hangzhou in 1319, while the king requested the Yuan painter Zhen Ganru to draw the portrait of his subject, Yi.[1] [2][3]