STYLE OF REZA 'ABBASI, QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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YOUNG PORTUGUESE MAN
STYLE OF REZA 'ABBASI, QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within blue borders with gold, white and black rules, wide cream margins with single white inner and outer rule, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 8 ½ x 5 ¾in (21.3 x 14.2cm.); folio 14 ¼ x 9 ½in (36.2 x 24cm.)
This work is copied after the original painting of a young Portuguese man signed by Riza 'Abbasi, dated AH 1043/ 1633-34 AD which is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, (acc. no. 58.334).
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