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.