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Royal entertainment in a garden
Ascribed to: Bihzad (Persian)
Timurid period
late 15th century
Object Place: Herat, Afghanistan
Medium/Technique
Ink and opaque watercolors on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 30.8 × 19.6 cm (12 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.569
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On display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, December 17, 2023 – August 4, 2024
On display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, December 17, 2023 – August 4, 2024
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
InscriptionsInscription under table attributes painting to Bihzad.
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).