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Nuzhatnama (Book of Pleasures): Lizard
Nuzhatnama (Book of Pleasures): Lizard

Nuzhatnama (Book of Pleasures): Lizard

possibly 16th century
Object PlaceIran?
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 24.9 × 16.2 cm (9 13/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.540
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).