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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.270
People
Attributed to Mir Musavvir, Persian
Title
A Portly Courtier
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
c. 1530
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216511

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and reed pen on paper
Dimensions
34 × 23.5 cm (13 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
13.5 × 10.4 cm (5 5/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Henry B. Cabot, Walter Cabot, Edward W. Forbes, Eric Schroeder, and the Annie S. Coburn Fund
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.270
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric Schroeder, Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), pp. 101-103, fig. 17
  • Arthur Upham Pope, Masterpieces of Persian Art, The Dryden Press (New York, 1945), p. 175, pl. 133
  • Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Mostra d'arte iranica. Exhibition of Iranian Art., exh. cat. (Milan, 1956), no. 520
  • Ernst Grube, Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada, exh. cat., Neri Pozza Editore (Venice, 1962)
  • Kimon Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1975), page 85
  • Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence, J P Tarcher (Los Angeles, 1979)
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 51, 56-57, no. 16, ill.
  • Dr. Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Artist Within, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 1986)

Exhibition History

  • Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
  • Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
  • Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
  • Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987
  • Precisely to the Point, Daggers and Drawings from Persia and India: 15th-19th century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/30/1992 - 07/26/1992
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994
  • Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997

Verification Level

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