1958.75: Nomadic Encampment, probably a folio from a manuscript of Layla va Majnun by Jami

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.75

People

Attributed to Mir Sayyid ‘Ali, Persian (16th century)

Title

Nomadic Encampment, probably a folio from a manuscript of Layla va Majnun by Jami

Classification

Manuscripts

Work Type

manuscript folio

Date

c. 1540

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz

Period

Safavid period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216252

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

Dimensions

28.4 x 20 cm (11 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: "the work of Mir Sayyid 'Ali"
• inscription: Inscribed: "The work of Mir Sayyid [-'Ali]".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (1910-1958). John Goelet, New York (by 1958), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet, formerly in the collection of Louis J. Cartier

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.75

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), pl. 85, figure 152
• Maurice Sven Dimand, A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination, exh. cat. (Portland, ME, 1933), pls. 21,22
• Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present (1938), vol. V, pls. 908A, 909A
• Ivan Stchoukine, Les peintures des manuscrits safavis 1502-1587, P. Guenther (Paris, 1959), p. 79, no. 33A
• Stuart Cary Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Painting & Precious Objects, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1963), pp. 23-24, 161, no. 1, pl. 1
• Basil William Robinson, Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), p. 134, pl. 34
• Ernst Grube, The World of Islam (New York, NY, 1966), p. 127, fig. 80
• Bamber Gascoigne, The Great Moghuls, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1971), p. 59, repro.
• University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Artists, Artisans and Islamic Design: The Court Art of Islam in the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat. (Amhert, MA, 1972), p. 8
• David Lewis James, Islamic Art: An Introduction, Hamlyn Publishing Group (London, 1974), p. 51
• Alexandre Papadopoulo, L'Islam et l'art musulman (Paris, 1976), pl. 54
• Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art From Prehistoric Times to the Present, Soroush Press (Tehran, Iran, 1977), page 908, 909
• Walter B. Denny, Oriental Rugs, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C, 1979), pp. 28-29, fig. 14
• Philip Drew, Tensile Architecture, Westview Press, Inc. (Boulder, 1979), pp. ix. 101-102, fig. 156
• Stuart Cary Welch, Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp. 178-179, no. 67
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 13, 51, 58-61, no. 17, ill.
• Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1981), Page 183/Figure 238
• Michele de Angelis and Thomas W. Lentz, Architecture in Islamic Painting: Permanent and Impermanent Worlds, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass, 1982)
• A. M. Kevorkian and J.P. Sicre, Les Jardins du desir: Sept siecles de peinture persane, Phebus (Paris, France, 1983), pp166
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 74/figure 77
• Annemarie Schimmel, Die Orientalische Katze, Tillmann Roeder (Munich, 1989), page 26 & 110
• Layla S. Diba, "Clothing", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume V, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Mazda Publishers (1992), p. 789, plate CI
• Dr. Sheila R. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi Abbasi of Isfahan, Azimuth Editions Ltd. (London, England, 1996), pp. 220 & 231, fig. 23
• Peter Alford Andrews, "Felt Tents and Pavilions: The Nomadic Traditin and its Interaction with Princely Tentage" (1999), Melisende, fig. 155
• 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 171, 239-240
• James Cuno, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report, 1998-99, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2000), p. 43
• Oleg Grabar and Mika Natif, Two Safavid Paintings: An Essay in Interpretation, Muqarnas, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (2001), Vol. 18, pp. 173-202, fig. 1
• Ernst Grube and Renzo Zorzi, "Il Ritratto Nel Mondo Musulmano", Le Metamorfosi del Ritratto, Leo S. Olschki (Firenze, 2002), pp. 181-202, fig 9
• Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak, and Ernst Grube, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven; London, 2002), p. 256
• Guity Nashat, ed., Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, 2003), p 229/fig 10
• Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer, and Pirjetta Mildh, ed., Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400-1700: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Ashmolean Museum on 30-31 August 2003, May Beattie Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art (Oxford, UK; Genoa, 2010), p. 136, fig. 31
• Abolala Soudavar, Reassessing Early Safavid Art and History: Thirty Five Years after Dickson & Welch 1981 (Houston, 2016), fig. 5
• Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 88, ill.; pp. 296-297, no. 10

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Islamic Objects, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 01/28/1972 - 02/28/1972
• Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
• Diverse are their Hues: Animals in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1984 - 02/09/1985
• The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985
• Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
• Paintings for Emperors, Rajs, and Sultans, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/19/1987 - 11/21/1987
• Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
• Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/11/1992 - 03/09/1992
• In Detail: Looking at Persian, Turkish and Indian Pictures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/11/1995 - 01/21/1996
• Courts and Countryside: Islamic Paintings from the 14th through the 17th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/21/1999 - 08/22/1999
• The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
• 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/14/2015 - 11/03/2015
• Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 10/21/2021 - 02/20/2022

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