KHORASSAN OR HERAT, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

The nim qalam nature of our drawing, which is executed with a very thin black brush and with minimal polychrome highlights, is most frequently associated with the artist Muhammadi (active circa 1560-91 AD) who Abolala Soudavar refers to as ‘undoubtedly the most talented painter of the last quarter of the sixteenth century’ (Soudavar, 1992, p.237). Although certain features from our painting bear close resemblance to his work, there not enough to attribute this work to the artist himself, but it seems likely that our work was the product of the same school.