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Equestrian portrait of Nadir Shah Afshar
Equestrian portrait of Nadir Shah Afshar

Equestrian portrait of Nadir Shah Afshar

Muhammad Ali ibn Abd al-Bayg ibn Ali Quli Jabbadar (Iranian, mid-18th century)
about 1740– 45
Object PlaceIsfahan, Iran
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 22.9 × 16.9 cm (9 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.646
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).
Leather binding
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1339 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Volume 13
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1338 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Page from a Qur'an manuscript
Muḥammad ibn al-Waḥīd
about 1306–1311
Page from an illuminated Qur'an manuscript
Shadhi ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyub
January 15, 1314 / 27 Ramadan 713
Combination lock box
Muhammad ibn Hamid al-Asturlabi al-Isfahani
1197 A.D./ 593 A.H.
Hawking Party
Mirza 'Ali
Verso about 1570; recto after 1583
Girl Reading
Mirza 'Ali
about 1570
Illustrated manuscript of the Haft Manzar of Hatifi
Fulad Muhammad b. Yar Muhammad al-Bukhari
Between 1589 and 1598