Portrait of Mirza Muhammad Hakim
Aqa Riza
(Persian, active in India about 1580–1620)
1584–1590
Object Placepossibly Lahore, Northern India or Pakistan
Medium/TechniqueInk, color and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 14.6 × 8.1 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.609
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
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
