2011.533: Cheetah Trainer
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.533
- People
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Attributed to Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), Persian (c. 1560-70 - 1635)
- Title
- Cheetah Trainer
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Equestrian Portrait with Cheetah, Horseman with Cheetah
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1590
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215728
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray-black ink on silver-flecked off-white paper
- Dimensions
- 13.6 x 10.1 cm (5 3/8 x 4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warner, New Hampshire (by April 1, 1969-2008), by inheritance; to Edith I. Welch, Warner, New Hampshire (2008-2011), gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2011.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.533
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This is a small, exquisite drawing of a horseman with a cheetah seated behind him. The horseman sits straight up with both hands clasped on the saddle gazing into the distance, perhaps in expectation of game, while the small cheetah glances in the other direction. The silver flecks that have now tarnished to dull black in the paper obscure somewhat the fine details of the drawing, especially the subtle face of the man.
Publication History
- Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), p. 33, fig. 27 (detail); pp. 65-67, no. 12
Exhibition History
- From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005
Verification Level
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