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An ink and opaque watercolor painting of a standing woman who is dressed in a bright pink dress with patterned accessories. She holds a small flower in one hand. She wears a long, yellow fabric on her head that goes down her back.

An ink and opaque watercolor painting of a standing woman on a tan background and facing to the right. Her skin tone is grey. She is dressed in a knee-length bright pink dress that flares out from her waist and covers her arms. The garment has a purple undergarment, patterned edges, a white and orange twisted belt, and she wears pants that have a diagonal line pattern on them. She wears red heeled shoes. She holds a small flower in her left hand and her right hand is bent at her side. She wears a long, yellow fabric with green floral motifs on her head that goes down her back. Her black hair curls around her face.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.76
Title
Young Woman with Flower
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
Second half of the 18th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran or India
Period
Afsharid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216376

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
31.8 x 21.4 cm (12 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.76
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 119, no. 123
  • Penley Knipe, Katherine Eremin, Marc Walton, Agnese Babini, and Georgina Rayner, Materials and Techniques of Islamic Manuscripts, Heritage Science, Heritage Science (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0217-y, 2018), 6, 55, Figure 20 a-b, Page 30

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