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Album folio with a young man

about 1598
Object PlaceIsfahan, Iran
Medium/TechniqueInk, color, and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 26.7 × 14.4 cm (10 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.614
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
InscriptionsInscribed in Persian: "Riza is its writer."
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).
Portrait of Muhammed 'Ali Muzahhib, Gilder of Shiraz
Riza-i- Abbasi
probably second quarter of the 17th century
Dervish Washing His Hands
Riza-i- Abbasi
first half of the 17th century
A Group in the Landscape
Riza-i- Abbasi
probably about 1640
Man playing Panpipes
Aqa Riza
17th century
Prince and Lady under Flowering Branch
Recto early 16th century; verso about 1420–40; mounted in album about 1544–45
Petition to the grand vizier in pursuit of a position as scribe
Ṣālih Efendi-zāde Meḥmed Emīn
about 1725
Page with calligraphy, Sura 20:4-8 of the Qur'an
Yāqūt al-Musta‘ṣimī
late 13th-14th century
Hâfız Yûsuf
1763 A.D./ 1176 A.H.