Landscape Painting by Hong Hyeon-ju

Landscape Painting by Hong Hyeon-ju is an artwork that adds Hong Hyun-joo's painting and Jeong Yak-yong's poem. King Jeongjo's son-in-law Hong Hyun-ju is an artist who not only excelled in poetry but also paintings.

The painting captures the appearance of oak, paulownia, and the other old trees mingling together with a simple brush stroke on the screen that forms a diagonal composition. A distant mountain was described with a fine brush, and the wrinkles of the mountain were painted with light ink and light blue several times to express shade. In the lower left corner of the painting, Hong Hyun-ju's seal called "Hyunjusain" is stamped, and in the upper right corner of the screen, there is a shoe print poem by Jeong Yak-yong's "Dasan Simun Collection," volume 6, "Write four mortar strokes in the album of Yeongmyeongwi." Hong Hyun-joo visited Majae, where Jeong Yak-yong lived before 1836, and enjoyed the arts with Jeong Yak-yong and other writers. It is estimated that the work was also produced at this time.

This work has long been regarded as Jeong Yak-yong's work because it has Jeong Yak-yong's pen name, Yeolcho. However, Hong Hyun-ju's existence was revealed through comparison of other works by publishing the collection catalogu, Landscape Painting and Flower Painting. Afterwards, he recognized that it was the work of Hong Hyeon-Ju as a literary artist, paying attention to the fact that he could know the relationship with Jeong Yak-Yong. It was recognized that the literary painting is a representative work of Hong Hyeon-ju, the artistic perfection of the work, and the valuable example of the 19th century Joseon literary painting.