LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper

Measurements:

7.76 in. (19.70 cm.) (height) by 4.49 in. (11.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 5 Safar AH 1087/19 April 1676 AD on the upper left side of the page, reverse plain; collection label on reverse of frame

Condition:

ruled borders, applied blue paper margin, laid down on thin card, reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts, 1926. Philadelphia, Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, 1926. Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Fourteenth Loan Exhibition, Mohammedan Decorative Arts, Oct. 21-Nov. 23, 1930, no. 49 (lent by Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., New York). London, Royal Academy of Arts, International Exhibition of Persian Art, Jan. 7-Feb. 7, 1931, no. 708.

Literature:

P. Ganz, L’Oeuvre d’un amateur d’art, la collection de Monsieur F. Engel-Gros, catalogue raisonné, Geneva and Paris, 1926, no. 11d. L. Binyon, J.V.S. Wilkinson, and B. Gray, Persian Miniature Painting, Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931, Oxford, 1933, no. 374, repr. Pl. CXII. I. Stchoukine, Les Peintures des manuscrits de Shah ‘Abbas Ier à la fin des Safavis, Institut Français d’Archéologie de Beyrouth, Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, tome LXXVI, Paris, 1964, pp. 89-90. R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 286-297, no. 215.

Provenance:

Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar as part of an album given to the geographer J. Petermann, 1855. F. Engel-Gros, Fifaille, Switzerland, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 3-June 1, 1921, lot 252d. Parish-Watson & Co., New York, Nov. 1930-31. Emile Tabbagh, Paris, sold New York, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., Jan. 3-4, 1936, lot 73. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Acquired from the estate of the above December 1960.