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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1988.460.2
People
Sultan Muhammad, Persian (16th century)
Title
Earthly Drunkenness (painting recto; text verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Divan of Hafiz
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
c. 1530
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303418
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Ink, color, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions
actual: 28.7 x 35.5 cm (11 5/16 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: The work of Sultan-Muhammad of 'Iraq
Provenance
Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (by 1958), sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warren, NH, (1958-1988), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch in honor of the students of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Jointly owned by the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year
1988
Object Number
1988.460.2
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), page 80/figure 144

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), p. 128, fig. LXXV

Basil William Robinson, Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), pp.134, plate 33

Stuart Cary Welch, A King's Book of Kings: The Shah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1976), p. 58

Stuart Cary Welch, Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century, George Braziller (New York, 1976), pp. 68, 69/ plate 18

Stuart Cary Welch, Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp.128-129, fig. 44

Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1981), pp. 38; 56-58; 66; 69; 70 / fig. 38; 51-55; 71; 84; 86

Michele de Angelis and Thomas W. Lentz, Architecture in Islamic Painting: Permanent and Impermanent Worlds, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass, 1982)

History of the World, brochure, Asahi Shimbun Press (Tokyo, Japan, 1989), A-246

Sheila Blair, ed., Images of Paradise In Islamic Art, exh. cat., University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1991), p. 105, fig. 44

Esin Atil, "Humor and Wit in Islamic Art", Asian Art & Culture, ed. Karen Sagstetter, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, Fall/Winter 1994), vol. 7, no. 1, p. 21, fig. 10

Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250 - 1800 (New Haven, CT, 1994), p. 169, fig. 211

Jerry H. Combee, History of the World in Christian Perspective, Beka Book Publication (Pensacola, FL, 1995)

James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), page 134-135

Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Sarah Coakley, ed., Religion and the Body, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1997), p. 266

Albert Craig, The Heritage of World Civilizations, Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997), p. 645

Bernard Lewis, A Middle East Mosaic, Random House (New York, 2000), p. 374

Oleg Grabar, Mostly Miniatures: An Introducation to Persian Painting, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2000), p 68/fig 31

Studies In Islamic and Later Indian Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 10, fig. 1; details on p. 8 and cover

Priscilla Soucek, Interpreting the Ghazals of Hafiz, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (Cambridge, MA, Spring, 2003), No. 43, Islamic Arts, p. 157, fig. 5

John Renard, Historical Dictionary of Sufism, Scarecrow Press (Maryland, 2005), fig. 13

The Tangled Braid: Ninety-nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz, Fons Vitae (Louisville, KY, 2009), p. xx, and detail on book cover

Farid al-Din Attar, Layli Anvar, and Michael Barry, Le Cantique des Oiseaux: illustré par la peinture en Islam d’orient, Diane de Selliers (Paris, 2012), p. 310, ill. pp. 311-312

Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 83, ill; pp. 293-295, no. 4f

Exhibition History

The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985

Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990

The Here and the Hereafter: Images of Paradise in Islamic Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 03/16/1991 - 05/26/1991

Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/11/1992 - 03/09/1992

Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicants, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/1999 - 03/29/1999

32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/14/2015

Related Works

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