• Unidentified artist
• Joseon Dynasty, c. 1572
• Ink and color on silk
• Entrusted to The Korean Studies Institute by the Head House of the Cheonjeon Branch of the Uiseong Kim Clan
• Treasure

This portrait depicts the literati Kim Jin (1500–1580) at the age of seventy-three. He is seated on a rectangular leopard-skin cushion, rendered without regard for spatial depth. While the clothing, rendered with lines and color, appears flat, the face is brought to life through delicate washes applied to the cheeks, mouth, and wrinkles around the nose, lending it vitality and a sense of volume. Kim Jin is known to have hung this portrait in a pavilion at his retreat and composed a poem expressing his wish to forever enjoy the pleasures of a reclusive life. This work is a significant example of the late sixteenth-century portraiture of literati in everyday attire, marking a distinctive stylistic shift of the period.