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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.48
People
Attributed to Mu’in Musavvir, Persian
Title
Portrait of Shah Abbas I and a Page, folio from an album
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1632-1633 (dated 1042 AH)
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216106

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions
sheet: H. 29.5 x W. 19.2 cm (11 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
painting proper: H. 21.3 x W. 10.8 cm (8 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.48
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anthony Welch, Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1973), p. 123, fig. 85
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 52, 96-97, no. 36, ill.
  • Carol Bier, Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: textile arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th centuries, exh. cat., The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum (Washington, D.C, 1987), pg. 216, b/w
  • Selmin Kangal, ed., The Sultan's Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman, exh. cat., Isbank (Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), page 52/figure 13
  • William Noel, ed., The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible, Third Millennium Publishing Limited (Surrey, UK, 2002), p 122/ fig.1
  • 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. 14

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997
  • From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travelers to Safavid Iran, 1550-1700, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 05/08/2008 - 08/20/2008
  • 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

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