Album folio fragment with scholar in a garden

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Album folio fragment with scholar in a garden

Muhammad Ali (Indian, active early 17th century)

Mir 'Imad al-Hasani (d. 1615)

about 1610–15

Object PlaceNorth India

Medium/TechniqueInk, color and gold on paper

DimensionsHeight x width: 15 × 15.8 cm (5 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution

Accession number14.663

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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

Collections

Asia

InscriptionsPersian inscription below image: Mohammad Ali".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).