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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.197
People
Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), Persian (c. 1560-70 - 1635)
Title
Nashmi the Archer
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1630
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213050

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
image: 19 x 10 cm (7 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed by Riza 'Abbasi, Signed Date: 25 February 1622

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, NY, (by 1960), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.197
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Detroit Institute of Arts, The Fourteenth Loan Exhibition: Mohammedan Decorate Arts, exh. cat. (Detroit, 1930)
  • The Emil Tabbagh Collection, auct. cat. (New York, January 3-4, 1936), lot 188, p. 97, repro.
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present (1938), vol. III, p. 1888; vol. V, pl. 921A
  • Eric Schroeder, "Mrs. Rockefeller's Miniatures at the Fogg", The Connoisseur (August 1961), vol. 148, pp. 70-75, fig. 10
  • Ivan Stchoukine, Les peintures des manuscrits de Shah Abbas Ier à la fin des Safavis, P. Geuthner (Paris, 1964), pp. 125-126
  • Anthony Welch, Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1973), page 29/figure 12
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art From Prehistoric Times to the Present, Soroush Press (Tehran, Iran, 1977), page 921
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 52, 88-89, no. 32, ill.
  • [Reproduction only], [Exhibition opening listing with images], Harvard University Gazette, (February 1981).
  • Hasan Javadi, Satire in Persian Literature, Farleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, 1988), Pg. 90
  • Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250 - 1800 (New Haven, CT, 1994), 179, fig. 223
  • Dr. Sheila R. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi Abbasi of Isfahan, Azimuth Editions Ltd. (London, England, 1996), Page 177 & 200/Figure 126
  • Massumeh Farhad, "Arts of the Islamic World at the Sackler", Oriental Art, Oriental Art Magazine (Singapore, 1997), vol. XLIII, no. 3, page 46/figure 10
  • Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Art and Architecture, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1999), page 245/figure 190
  • Oleg Grabar, Mostly Miniatures: An Introducation to Persian Painting, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2000), p 77/fig 38
  • James J. Reid, Studies in Safavid Mind, Society and Culture, Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa CA, 2000), p. 374-375, plate 4.
  • Giovanni Curatola and Gianroberto Scarcia, Iran L'art Persiana, Jaca (Milan, 2003), p 215, fig. 171
  • Yvonne Tan, "Strolling Through Isfahan: Seventeenth Century Paintings from Safavid Iran", The Asian Art Newspaper, ed. Sarah Callaghan, Sarah Callaghan (London, 2010), Vol. 13, Issue 6, p.13-14, article p. 13-14, image p. 13
  • Kristyna Rendlova, Portrait of Ḥakīm Shifā’ī from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague in the Context of the Work of Riẓā-yi Abbāsī, his Workshop and Epigons, Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague, National Gallery in Prague (Prague, 2015), vol. XXV, pp. 70-83, pp. 75-77, fig. 5
  • Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, and Kent Severson, Waterscapes: Islamic Architecture & Art from Doris Duke's Shangri La, Newport Restoration Foundation (Newport, 2016), p. 61, ill.
  • Marika Sardar, ed., Image? The Power of the Visual, exh. cat., The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, 2022), pp. 197-198, fig. 20

Exhibition History

  • Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
  • Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
  • The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
  • Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997
  • Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 4) Strolling Through Isfahan: Seventeenth-Century Paintings From Safavid Iran, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/08/2010 - 06/13/2010
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/02/2016 - 04/26/2017

Verification Level

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