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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.60
People
Attributed to Mirza ‘Ali, Persian (active 16th century )
Title
Seated Princess with a Spray of Flowers (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
c. 1540
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303532

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 39.7 x 28 cm (15 5/8 x 11 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ducoté Collection, Paris (by 1912). Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (1912-1958). John Goelet, New York (by 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
1958.60
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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, plate 100-top
  • Georges Marteau and Henri Vever, Miniatures persanes; tirées des collections de MM. Henry d'Allemagne, Claude Anet, Henri Aubry...et exposées au Musée des arts décoratifs, juin -- octobre 1912., exh. cat., Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie (Paris, 1913), vol. II, pl. 118, no. 144
  • E. Kühnel, Miniaturmalerie im Islamischen Orient (Berlin, 1922), pl. 57
  • Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), pl. 38, fig. 60
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present (1938), vol. III, p. 1977; vol V, pl. 902
  • Ivan Stchoukine, Les peintures des manuscrits safavis 1502-1587, P. Guenther (Paris, 1959), p. 77, no. 27
  • Basil William Robinson, Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), p. 134, plate 37
  • Laurence Binyon, J. V. S. Wilkinson, and Basil Gray, Persian Miniature Painting, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, 1971), no. 98
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art From Prehistoric Times to the Present, Soroush Press (Tehran, Iran, 1977), page 902
  • Stuart Cary Welch, Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp. 184-185, no. 70
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 11, 13, 62-63, no. 19, ill.
  • Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1981), Page 141/Figure 198
  • Jennifer Scarce, Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East, Unwin Hyman Limited (London, England, 1987), page 149/plate 102
  • Layla S. Diba, "Clothing", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume V, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Mazda Publishers (1992), p. 790, plate CII
  • Annemarie Schimmel, Terres d'Islam: Aux Sources de l'Orient Musulman, Maisonneuve et Larose (Paris, France, 1994), Pg. 104
  • Annemarie Schimmel, Meine Seele ist eine Frau: Das Weibliche im Islam, Kosel (Munich, Germany, 1995), cover and color plate between pages 48-49
  • 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 138-139
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • 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 168, 239
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1999-2000 (Cambridge, MA, 2001), p. 30 detail
  • Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak, and Ernst Grube, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven; London, 2002), pp. 236-237, fig. 152
  • Jon Thompson, ed., Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501 - 1576, exh. cat., Skira (New York, 2003), p 110 - 111, fig 4.25
  • Jon Thompson, Silk, 13th to 18th centuries: Treasures from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qajar, exh. cat., National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage (Doha, Qatar, 2004), p 36
  • Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer, and Pirjetta Mildh, ed., Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400-1700: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Ashmolean Museum on 30-31 August 2003, May Beattie Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art (Oxford, UK; Genoa, 2010), p. 150, fig. 7
  • 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. 139, ill. p. 140.
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 86, ill.; pp. 296-297, no. 12

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
  • Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
  • The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
  • Transformations: Asia East and West, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/19/1992 - 02/14/1993
  • In Detail: Looking at Persian, Turkish and Indian Pictures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/11/1995 - 01/21/1996
  • Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997
  • The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Dallas Museum of Art, 05/14/2022 - 09/18/2022

Verification Level

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