LOT DETAILS
Materials:
gouache heightened with gold on paper
Size Notes:
folio; painting 21x12.7 cm
Description:
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Markings:
later inscription above; collection label on reverse of frame
Condition:
laid down on card with applied colored paper margins and colored marginal rules, laid down onto modern mount, mounted, framed and glazed
Literature:
P. Ganz, L’Oeuvre d’un amateur d’art, la collection de Monsieur F. Engel-Gros, catalogue raisonné, Geneva and Paris, 1926, no. 11a. R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, pp. 282-3.
Provenance:
Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, as part of an album given to the geographer J. Peterman, 1855. F. Engel-Gros, Fifaille, Switzerland, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1921, no. 252a. Parish-Watson & Co., New York, 1924 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Acquired from the estate of the above December 1960.