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""believed to have been taken while the Temple was under the control of the United States Army during the Korean War.""
""The Met has a long history of working with colleagues and institutions in Korea, and we look forward to continuing our collaborative efforts to enhance the world's understanding and appreciation of the arts of Korea,""
The Tenth King of Hell is an 18th-century Joseon Dynasty painting from 1798 and one panel of a ten-part Siwangdo ensemble originally housed at Sinheungsa Temple in Sokcho. The work was recorded at the temple in a 1942 Japanese government-general survey and appears in U.S. military photographs from 1953–54. The painting was taken from the temple in 1954 and later purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007 from collector Robert Moore via an LLC linked to Michael C. Hughes. The Met exhibited the painting in 2008 and 2012 and has returned it to the temple; six other panels were repatriated by LACMA in 2020.
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