Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
c. 1485
Bihzad
Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506)
Islamic Art
Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso), c. 1485. Style of Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1944.490 The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy. Intoxicated, a man in blue at the lower right has fallen.
- Maker/Artist
- Bihzad
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Medium
- opaque, watercolor, ink, gold, paper
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1944.490
- Credit Line
- Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Exhibitions
- Islamic Art, The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran, Muslim Miniature Paintings, The Classical Style in Islamic Painting, Persian Miniature Manuscripts, <em>International Exhibition of Persian</em> <em>Art</em>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931). [Lent by Philip Hofer, New York], <em>Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination.</em> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934)., <em>Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts</em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956)., <em>Exhibition of Persian Art</em>. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956)., <em>7000 Ans d'art en Iran</em>. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961)., <em>Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections</em>. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963)., <em>The Classical Style in Islamic Painting...</em>. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (November 6, 1968-January 4, 1969)., <em>Imperial Images in Persian Painting</em>. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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