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Walters Ms. W.680, Single leaf of a young man with a flower

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Shelf mark

W.680


Manuscript

Single leaf of a young man with a flower


Text title
A young man with a flower

Abstract

This single-leaf painting of a young man in a blue robe and red undergarment was produced in Safavid Iran in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The youth sits in a landscape smelling a flower. Images of elegantly dressed men and women were exceedingly popular in Safavid Iran. They circulated as loose leaves and were collected into albums (muraqqaʿ). The work is painted in opaque watercolor and gold.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

9.2 cm wide by 16.2 cm high


Contents:
fols. W.680a - W.680b:
  1. Title: A young man with a flower

Decoration:

fol. W.680a:

  1. W.680, fol. W.680a
  2. Title: A young man with a flower
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: This single-leaf painting of a young man in a blue robe and red undergarment was produced in Safavid Iran in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE.

fol. W.680b:

  1. W.680, fol. W.680b
  2. Title: A young man with a flower (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Grube, Ernst J., and Alberta Maria Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), no. 122.

Farhad, M., "Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629-1666.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 1987.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.