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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This single-leaf painting of a couple embracing, executed in Safavid Iran, is dated to 3 Sha`ban 1[0]98 AH / 1689 CE. The painting is in the style of the artist Mu'in Muṣawwir (Mu'in the painter), who was active in Isfahan from 1044-1109 AH / 1635-1697 CE. The illuminated landscape motifs are found in other paintings associated with this painter, who produced both single-leaf compositions and manuscript illustrations. The handwriting is also comparable to that found on Mu'in's accepted and signed works. The subject of couples embracing was a popular theme of single-leaf compositions in Isfahan of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE, repeated by Mu'in's contemporaries and students.
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Grube, Ernst J. and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 137.
Farhad, Massumeh, "Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629-1666" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1987), 170-186.
Farhad, Massumeh, “The Art of Muʿin Musavvir: A Mirror of His Times,” in Persian Masters: Five Centuries of Painting, Sheila R. Canby, ed. (Bombay: Marg Publishing, 1990), 113-29.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Iran
3 Sha`ban 1[0]98 AH / 1689 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
3 Sha`ban 1[0]98 AH / 1689 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This single-leaf painting of a couple embracing, executed in Safavid Iran, is dated to 3 Sha`ban 1[0]98 AH / 1689 CE. The painting is in the style of the artist Mu'in Muṣawwir (Mu'in the painter), who was active in Isfahan from 1044-1109 AH / 1635-1697 CE. The illuminated landscape motifs are found in other paintings associated with this painter, who produced both single-leaf compositions and manuscript illustrations. The handwriting is also comparable to that found on Mu'in's accepted and signed works. The subject of couples embracing was a popular theme of single-leaf compositions in Isfahan of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE, repeated by Mu'in's contemporaries and students.
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Grube, Ernst J. and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 137.
Farhad, Massumeh, "Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629-1666" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1987), 170-186.
Farhad, Massumeh, “The Art of Muʿin Musavvir: A Mirror of His Times,” in Persian Masters: Five Centuries of Painting, Sheila R. Canby, ed. (Bombay: Marg Publishing, 1990), 113-29.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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