ATTRIBUTABLE TO MU'IN MUSAWWIR, RAMADAN AH 1084/DECEMBER 1673 AD

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A YOUNG MAN WITH A DOG
Attributable to Mu'in Musawwir, Ramadan AH 1084/December 1673 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young man in European dress reclining against brocade cushions giving a small white dog a drink from a gold cup, inscribed in gold that it was completed in Ramadan 1084, slight flaking, mounted framed and glazed
Miniature 4 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (11.2 x 17.4cm.)

Provenance

Sidney Churchill

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Lot Essay

This is a copy of a painting by Mu'in's master Reza 'Abbasi, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, inv.no.58.334. The Reza original is of a pale skinned European boy, evidently a favourite of the artist, reclining against two ornate cushions. Although the colours are slightly different and the boy faces to the left rather than to the right, Mu'in has made a faithful copy of the original, without the rather provocative inscription which Reza appended to his drawing. (Canby, S.: The Rebellious Reformer, London, 1996, no. 128, pp. 174-176)
The date on the present painting is very sketchily written in gold but appears to read 1084.

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