A SAGE AND HIS PUPIL
A SAGE AND HIS PUPIL

QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A SAGE AND HIS PUPIL
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Oil on arched canvas, a young prince sits with an elderly sage on a carpeted terrace, an open book between them and more piled up before them, a small pearl-studded box in the foreground, beyond them a window through which a figure looks on from a grassy hilly landscape, areas of retouching, canvas trimmed, relined
63¼ x 33in. (160.6 x 83.8cm.)
Provenance
Private American Collection since 1960s, thence by descent

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