1958.60: Seated Princess with a Spray of Flowers (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album

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

Permissions

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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

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