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Album folio with a nobleman
Safavid period
Mid to late 16th century
Object Place: probably Khurasan, Iran
Medium/Technique
Ink, color, silver, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width (Overall): 36.6 × 24.2 cm (14 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Height x width (Image): 27 × 16.9 cm (10 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Height x width (Image): 27 × 16.9 cm (10 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.592
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CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionPortrait of a kneeling person holding a mace, arrows, bow, and bowl; wearing a locket, sash, turbans; forgrounded by branches with blossoms; image is from an album page and has a guilded finger tabs with biomorphic elements; image is framed with gold rulings.
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).