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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.27
People
Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), Persian (c. 1560-70 - 1635)
Title
Young Man in a Blue Cloak
Classification
Albums
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1587
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Qazvin
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216687

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
image: 17.6 x 7.3 cm (6 15/16 x 2 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
F. R. Martin. Sarah C. Sears collection, Boston, MA, (by 1935). Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley, (by 1936), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Sarah C. Sears Collection
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.27
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. 116-134, fig. 21
  • Basil Gray, La Peinture Persane, Skira (Geneve, 1961), p. 137
  • Ivan Stchoukine, Les peintures des manuscrits de Shah Abbas Ier à la fin des Safavis, P. Geuthner (Paris, 1964), pp. 100, 190-191
  • Anthony Welch, Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1973), pp. 28, 64, fig. 6
  • Anthony Welch, Artists for the Shah: Late Sixteenth-Century Painting at the Imperial Court of Iran, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1976), pp. 101, 129, pl. 6
  • Basil Gray, Persian Painting, Skira (New York, NY, 1977), p. 161
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 12, 52, 82-83, no. 29, ill.
  • Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250 - 1800 (New Haven, CT, 1994), 179, fig.222
  • Dr. Sheila R. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi Abbasi of Isfahan, Azimuth Editions Ltd. (London, England, 1996), Page 26 & 179/Figure 1
  • Oleg Grabar, Mostly Miniatures: An Introducation to Persian Painting, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2000), p 76/fig 37
  • Giovanni Curatola and Gianroberto Scarcia, Iran L'art Persiana, Jaca (Milan, 2003), p 215, fig. 170
  • David Roxburgh, The Persian Album, 1400 - 1600: from Dispersal to Collection, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2005), p 324/ fig 173
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 83

Exhibition History

  • Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
  • Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
  • In Detail: Looking at Persian, Turkish and Indian Pictures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/11/1995 - 01/21/1996
  • Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/02/2016 - 04/26/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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