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A QAJAR PORTAIT OF A YOUNG PRINCE, POSSIBLY NASR AL-DIN MIRZA, IRAN, CIRCA 1845

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A QAJAR PORTAIT OF A YOUNG PRINCE, POSSIBLY NASR AL-DIN MIRZA, IRAN, CIRCA 1845
Oil on copper, a young prince wearing a tall black hat, black trousers and a red coat of boteh design trimmed with fur, in a mountain landscape - 11 1/4 x 7 5/8in (28.8 x 19.2cm)
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Previously sold at Christie's King St, October 27 2004, Lot 115
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Lot Essay

Another portrait of the your Nasir Al-Din Shah painted on copper by Bahram Kirmanshahi is in the Museé du Louvre, MAO 776. During the 1850s-1870s he was depicted in a variety of settings, enthroned, on horseback and against landscapes, as here. Diba, L.S. Persian Paintings, The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925, New York, 1999, no. 75, pp. 244-5

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