1985.223: Houri in a Paradise Garden

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1985.223

Title

Houri in a Paradise Garden

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

c. 1600

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)

Period

Ottoman period

Culture

Ottoman

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212618

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions

folio: 31.9 × 20 cm (12 9/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
mat: 50.8 × 35.6 cm (20 × 14 in.)
frame: 53.5 × 38.3 × 2.5 cm (21 1/16 × 15 1/16 × 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

F.R Martin, London (by 1912). [Sevadjian, Paris (by 1960)] sold; to Jean Pozzi, Paris (1960-1970), sold; through [Vente Pozzi, Palais Galliera, Paris, 5 December 1970, lot 90]; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1970, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.

Footnote:
Edwin Binney, "Turkish Treasures From the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd", Portland Museum of Art, Portland Oregon, 1979, p.51.
Jean Pozzi (1884-1967), the French Ambassador to Constantinople in the 1930s.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums

Accession Year

1985

Object Number

1985.223

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• F.R. Martin, The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th century, B. Quaritch (London, England, 1912), p. 32
• Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979), page 50-51/figure 24
• Sheila Blair, ed., Images of Paradise In Islamic Art, exh. cat., University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1991), p87/ figure 20a
• Walter B. Denny and Aileen Ribeiro, Court and Conquest: Ottoman Origins and the Design for Handel's Tamerlano at the Glimmerglass Opera, exh. cat., Kent State University Museum (Kent State, OH, 1999), page 35/figure 31

Exhibition History

• The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1987 - 08/02/1987
• The Ottoman Empire: A Culture and Its Impact, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/1989 - 05/21/1989
• The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
• Transformations: Asia East and West, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/19/1992 - 02/14/1993
• Earthly Paradise: Gardens in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/08/1993 - 08/22/1993
• Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994
• Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997
• Court and Conquests, Ottoman Origins and the Designs for Handel's "Tamerlano" at the Glimmerglass Opera, Equitable Gallery, New York, 11/18/1998 - 01/23/1999; Kent State University Museum, Kent, 02/17/1999 - 04/25/1999
• The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/18/2006 - 07/23/2006

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