Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript
early 1600s
Riza-yi Abbasi
Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian)
Islamic Art
Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript, early 1600s. Style of Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.); overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.494.b Paintings like this frequently illustrated collections of verses about love and beauty; these themes often appear to serve as allegories of things divine.
- Maker/Artist
- Riza
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Medium
- opaque, watercolor, gold, paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.); Overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: script: none
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1944.494.b
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Islamic Art, Islamic art rotation, Islamic art rotation
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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