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Album folio fragment with scholar in a garden
Attributed to: Muhammad Ali (Indian, active early 17th century)
Calligrapher: Mir 'Imad al-Hasani (d. 1615)
Calligrapher: Mir 'Imad al-Hasani (d. 1615)
Mughal period
about 1610–15
Object Place: North India
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 15 × 15.8 cm (5 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.663
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
InscriptionsPersian inscription below image: Mohammad Ali".
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).