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Album page with girl reading and calligraphy
Probably by: Mirza 'Ali (Persian, active 1525–1575)
Safavid period
about 1570
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 35 × 23.8 cm (13 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.593
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionAlbum page with painting of a girl reading on recto and calligraphy on verso. Verso, above right: verses from Ghazal 324 from the Diwan of Sa'adi, calligraphy by Shah Mahmud Nishapuri. Verso, below right: couplet by unknown poet. Verso, left: poem by unknown author inscribed in white ink, calligraphy by Salim. Recto, calligraphy to upper left of painting: Ghazal 126 from the Diwan of Amir Hassan Sajzai Dehlavi. Recto, calligraphy to lower left of painting: couplet by unknown poet.
InscriptionsCalligraphy signed by Shah Mahmud Nishapuri and Salim.
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).