Three studies on an album page

BY MUHAMMADI AND SADIQI (?), 1570-1600

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Three studies on an album page
By Muhammadi and Sadiqi (?), 1570-1600
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the lower right with a painting of a seated nobleman holding a wine cup, inscribed jiht Nawab Khani surat-i-tah(sir) yaft Muhammadi below, the lower left with a young man holding a scroll, the drawing above of a young man seated on a carpet being massaged while attendants hold his falcon and book, mounted on card with floral margins, rubbing, flaking and staining, verso with 19th century Indian miniature of wrestlers
Persian miniatures 9½ x 6¼in. (24 x 16cm.)

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The artist Muhammadi is better known for the type of partly coloured drawing such as can be seen at the top of this album leaf, attributed here to him. Few fully coloured miniatures, such as the one lower right, can be attributed to him, making this a rarity. (B.W.Robinson, IRAN, op.cit., p. 18)
The other portrait resembles one in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris attributed to the artist Sadiqi.

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