Bongsudangjinchando

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1430-2

Category

Painting

Designated year

2015

Location

고양시, 경기도— 경기도 고양시

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The 'Banquet Painting Honoring the Birthday of Hegyeong' housed at Dongguk University is one of eight panels comprising the 'Illustrated Record of the Royal Procession to Hwaseong.' The 'Banquet Honoring the Birthday of Hegyeong' depicts the commemorative banquet held in 1795 to celebrate Hegyeong Hong's sixtieth birthday, the most important event during King Jeongjo's royal procession to Hyeongyeong-won, the mausoleum of his father Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762). Despite various difficulties, Hegyeong's participation in this banquet holds profound historical significance. The 'Illustrated Record of the Royal Procession to Hwaseong' is an eight-panel folding screen depicting the major events during King Jeongjo's eight-day royal visit from the ninth day of the second lunar month to the sixteenth day in 1795 (Jeongjo 19) to Hyeongyeong-won at Hwaseong. This eight-panel composition includes scenes such as 'Paying Reverence at the Sacred Shrine,' 'Announcing Results at Raknams Hall,' 'Banquet Honoring Hegyeong's Birthday,' 'Banquet for the Elderly at Raknams Hall,' 'Night Military Exercise at Western Command Platform,' 'Archery Competition at Deungung Pavilion,' 'Imperial Procession Return,' and 'Crossing the Han River Bridge During Imperial Return.' This royal procession illustrated screen constitutes the most noteworthy work among Joseon court ceremony paintings, exerting significant influence on subsequent works both stylistically and institutionally. The 'Banquet Honoring Hegyeong's Birthday' housed at Dongguk University Museum, donated in the 1970s by a Korean resident in Japan, represents despite being a single panel a work surpassing any eight-panel screen or individual paintings in artistic quality. The mounting employs silk patterns and mounting methods identical to the 'Imperial Procession Return' screen in the Leeum Museum collection, with similar dimensions—a notable observation suggesting these two panels likely originated from the same eight-panel screen given the slight stylistic differences indicating approximately three to four painters typically collaborated on historical records. The 'Banquet Honoring Hegyeong's Birthday' in Dongguk University Museum maintains excellent preservation, demonstrates outstanding quality, and exemplifies the late eighteenth-century through early nineteenth-century court historical painting style through its compositional structure, color application, and perspective techniques.