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 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).
Riza-i- Abbasi
probably second quarter of the 17th century
Recto early 16th century; verso about 1420–40; mounted in album about 1544–45
16th century
Ömer b. Abdurrahman
18th century
Ṣālih Efendi-zāde Meḥmed Emīn
about 1725
Hâfız Osman
1697 A.D./ 1108 A.H.