Portrait of a young man

BY 'ALI QULI JUBADAR ?, CIRCA 1680

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Portrait of a young man
By 'Ali Quli Jubadar ?, circa 1680
Gouache on paper, a young man in elaborate dress stands in a landscape holding a Chinese blue and white vase, a cat crouched at his feet, inscribed above 'Ali Quli Jubadar, light flaking, mounted on card with floral and gilded margins, framed and glazed
Folio: 8 x 5in. (22 x 14.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The style of this miniature is unusual for the artist 'Ali Quli Jubadar; it is possibly an early work of the artist before his mature style was formed, but more probably a version of a Reza drawing of a European man in a cloak holding a wine flask with a small dog at his feet, by another artist. (Canby, S.R.:The Rebellious Reformer, The drawings and paintings of Reza 'Abbasi of Isfahan, London, 1996, no.127, pp.172-3)

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