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A FOLIO FROM THE ST. PETERSBURG ALBUM
WOMEN BATHING IN A RIVER
THE PAINTING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1680, WITH EXTENDED AREA SIGNED MAHMUD; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED IMAD AL-HASSANI, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; MARGINS SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR AND MUHAMMAD HADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1172 / 1758-9 AD
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WOMEN BATHING IN A RIVER
THE PAINTING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1680, WITH EXTENDED AREA SIGNED MAHMUD; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED IMAD AL-HASSANI, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; MARGINS SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR AND MUHAMMAD HADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1172 / 1758-9 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the painting based on a European print by Aegidius Sadeler II, extended at left and right edges with the signature at lower left of extended painted surface, within red borders decorated with gold grape vine, the margins painted with flowers and meandering vine reserved against a gold ground, upper margin signed, reverse with three panels nasta'liq and siyah mashq on the diagonal in clouds reserved against gold ground, two panels signed, within red borders with gold floral meander, the navy blue margins with gold scrolling foliate motifs, lower left margin signed and dated, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ½ x 11 7⁄8 in. (19.2 x 30.3cm.); calligraphy panel 11 7⁄8 x 9in. (30.2 x 22.8cm.); folio 11 ¾ x 18 1⁄8 in. (30 x 46cm.)
THE PAINTING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1680, WITH EXTENDED AREA SIGNED MAHMUD; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED IMAD AL-HASSANI, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; MARGINS SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR AND MUHAMMAD HADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1172 / 1758-9 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the painting based on a European print by Aegidius Sadeler II, extended at left and right edges with the signature at lower left of extended painted surface, within red borders decorated with gold grape vine, the margins painted with flowers and meandering vine reserved against a gold ground, upper margin signed, reverse with three panels nasta'liq and siyah mashq on the diagonal in clouds reserved against gold ground, two panels signed, within red borders with gold floral meander, the navy blue margins with gold scrolling foliate motifs, lower left margin signed and dated, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ½ x 11 7⁄8 in. (19.2 x 30.3cm.); calligraphy panel 11 7⁄8 x 9in. (30.2 x 22.8cm.); folio 11 ¾ x 18 1⁄8 in. (30 x 46cm.)
Provenance
Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1978
Literature
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book - The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca, 1982, no.78, pp.231-3
A. Ivanov, G. Bailey, M. Beach, S.C. Welch, M.L. Swietechowski, N. Najat Haidar, O. Akimushkin, T. McInerney, The St. Petersburg Muraqqa' Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures from the 16th through the 18th Century and Specimens of Persian Calligraphy by Imad al- Hassani, Lugano and Milan, 1996, pl.234, pp.125-6, and colour facsimile
A. Adamova, Medieval Persian Painting, The Evolution of an Artistic Vision, (tr. and ed. M. Rogers), New York, 2008, fig.89, p.91
A. Ivanov, G. Bailey, M. Beach, S.C. Welch, M.L. Swietechowski, N. Najat Haidar, O. Akimushkin, T. McInerney, The St. Petersburg Muraqqa' Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures from the 16th through the 18th Century and Specimens of Persian Calligraphy by Imad al- Hassani, Lugano and Milan, 1996, pl.234, pp.125-6, and colour facsimile
A. Adamova, Medieval Persian Painting, The Evolution of an Artistic Vision, (tr. and ed. M. Rogers), New York, 2008, fig.89, p.91
Exhibited
Arts of the Islamic Book, Asia Society, New York; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, 1982-3
Engraved
The border of the recto signed, 'Raqam-i kamtarin Muhammad Baqir'
The border of the verso signed, 'Raqam bandieh Muhammad Hadi 1172'
The border of the verso signed, 'Raqam bandieh Muhammad Hadi 1172'
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