1972.299: Two Seated Men (drawing attributed to Bihzad), with Verses about the Inconstancy of Prophetic Vision by Sa'di (calligraphy, verso); Temptation with Wine (painting, recto); folio from an album

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1972.299

People

Attributed to Bihzad, Islamic (15th -16th century)

Title

Two Seated Men (drawing attributed to Bihzad), with Verses about the Inconstancy of Prophetic Vision by Sa'di (calligraphy, verso); Temptation with Wine (painting, recto); folio from an album

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

c. 1480-1490

Places

Creation Place: Central Asia, Afghanistan, Herat

Period

Timurid period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54423

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

39.1 x 27.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer in honor of Stuart Cary Welch

Accession Year

1972

Object Number

1972.299

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stuart Cary Welch, Pictures from the Hindu and Muslim Worlds, Apollo (May 1978), Vol. 107, pp. 68-73, p. 68, fig. 1
• Stuart Cary Welch, Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 16, fig. 2
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 34, 46-47, no. 13, ill.
• Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exh. cat., Museum Associates (Los Angeles, CA, 1989), pp287, 361, cat. no.158
• Evelyn Rosenthal, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1994-1995, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996)

Exhibition History

• Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
• The House of Timur: Princely Arts in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, 04/14/1989 - 07/06/1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 08/13/1989 - 11/05/1989
• Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
• 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
• The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/2003 - 07/18/2004

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