PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY

SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASAN AFSHAR, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1254/1838-39 AD

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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASAN AFSHAR, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1254/1838-39 AD
Opaque pigments on paper, the young woman sits on a wooden chair in European style blue dress with ornate white collar and bonnet with pink ribbons against a plain grey ground, inscription to the left of the composition which reads raqam kamtarin Muhammad Hasan Afshar 1254, laid down between gold, white and black rules on buff card, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 5 7/8 x 3¾in. (14.5 x 9.8cm.); Folio 7 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (20 x 15cm.)

来源

Sotheby's, 22 October 1993, lot 211

拍品专文

Muhammad Hasan Afshar Urumieh had an unusually long career lasting from around 1818 to 1878. He was active as a court painter during the reigns of Fath 'Ali Shah, Muhammad Shah and Nasir al-Din Shah. As well as being well-known as a painter of large formal court portraits, he was a gifted calligrapher, illuminator, caricaturist and lacquer painter (Layla Diba et.al., Royal Persian Paintings, The Qajar Epoch, New York, 1999, pp.225-227).

Muhammad Hasan was influenced by European painting traditions and often worked European subjects. Amongst his other known works are a penbox decorated with scenes of heaven and hell and the campaigns of the Emperor Napoleon. Another painting by him, depicting a European gentleman, was sold in Christie's, 23 April 2002, lot 171.