Sultan Husain Mirza on Horseback
Bihzad
(Persian)
late 15th century
Object PlaceAfghanistan
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 34.2 × 23.5 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.570
On View
Not on viewClassificationsBooks 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).
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).
Recto early 16th century; verso about 1420–40; mounted in album about 1544–45
Ömer b. Abdurrahman
18th century
Yedikuleli Seyyid ʿAbdullâh Efendi
1731 A.D./ 1141 A.H.
Ṣālih Efendi-zāde Meḥmed Emīn
about 1725
about 1500
Hâfız Osman
1697 A.D./ 1108 A.H.