Details

Subject(s)

• Riz̤ā-ʼi ʻAbbāsī Āqā approximately 1570-1635?—Portraits—Specimens [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Portraits [Browse]

Summary note

Portrait of the famous Persian miniaturist Riz̤ā ʻAbbāsī by his student Muʻīn Muṣavvir. The subject wears spectacles and is holding a picture of a European which he is painting, with the implements of his craft spread around him (description by Moghadam).

Notes

• Image + illuminated frame: 32.4 x 21.3 cm.
• Mounted: 51.4 x 41.3 cm.
• Gouache and gold on paper; portrait is framed in illuminated borders; mounted on cardboard. Entire piece framed in modern black frame with ivory matting and glass.
• Dated Ramaḍān 1084 H [December 1673 or January 1674].

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 200

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

773928377

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