Harvard Art Museums > 1958.59: Portrait of Sultan Husayn Mirza, folio from an album Albums Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Portrait of Sultan Husayn Mirza, folio from an album (Attributed to Bihzad) , 1958.59,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/216273. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1958.59 People Attributed to Bihzad, Islamic (15th -16th century) Title Portrait of Sultan Husayn Mirza, folio from an album Classification Albums Work Type album folio Date 1480-1510 Places Creation Place: Central Asia, Afghanistan, Herat Period Timurid period Culture Persian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/216273 Physical Descriptions Medium Ink, color and gold on paper; pricked Dimensions folio: 34.3 x 32.7 cm (13 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.) frame: 57.5 x 43.5 cm (22 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Fredrik Robert Martin, Sweden, (by 1912-1929). Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (1929-1958). John Goelet, New York (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 1958.59 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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), vol. II, pl. 81 Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), p. 37, figure 59 Laurence Binyon and J. V. S. Wilkinson, Persian Miniature Painting: Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931, exh. cat., Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (London, England, 1933), no. 89 Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 34, 51, 76-77, no. 26, ill. Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exh. cat., Museum Associates (Los Angeles, CA, 1989), pp242-243, 356, cat. no. 136 Layla S. Diba, "Clothing", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume V, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Mazda Publishers (1992), p. 783, plate XCVII Annemarie Schimmel, Terres d'Islam: Aux Sources de l'Orient Musulman, Maisonneuve et Larose (Paris, France, 1994), Pg. 56 Wheeler Thackston, ed., The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor, Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1996), P. 205 "Disorderly Conduct?: F.R. Martin and the Bahram Mirza Album", Muqarnas (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 15, 32-57, p.39, Fig. 13 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 173, 240 Selmin Kangal, ed., The Sultan's Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman, exh. cat., Isbank (Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), page 26/figure 2 Ernst Grube and Renzo Zorzi, "Il Ritratto Nel Mondo Musulmano", Le Metamorfosi del Ritratto, Leo S. Olschki (Firenze, 2002), pp. 181-202, fig. 3 Afghanistan: une histoire millenaire, exh. cat., Fundació la Caixa (Paris, France, 2002), page 61, 177/figure 146 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. 269-270, fig. 186 Studies In Islamic and Later Indian Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), page 48/figure 5 and frontispiece David Roxburgh, ed., Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600 - 1600, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2005), p 239/ fig 200 Chris Dercon, León Krempel, and Avinoam Shalem, ed., The future of tradition - the tradition of future : 100 years after the exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art in Munich, exh. cat., Prestel Verlag (München, Germany, 2010), pp. 111-116, cat. no. 22 Mika Natif, Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, 2018), fig. 98 Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 80, ill.; pp. 298-299, no. 24 Exhibition History Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984 Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987 The House of Timur: Princely Arts in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, 04/14/1989 - 07/06/1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 08/13/1989 - 11/05/1989 Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995 Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997 The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000 Turkic Art 600 - 1600 From Central Asia to the Golden Horn, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/22/2005 - 04/12/2005 The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future: 100 Years After the Exhibition "Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art" in Munich, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 09/17/2010 - 01/09/2011 A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2017 - 08/13/2017 Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 10/21/2021 - 02/20/2022 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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