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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.59
People
Attributed to Bihzad, Islamic (15th -16th century)
Title
Portrait of Sultan Husayn Mirza, folio from an album
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1480-1510
Places
Creation Place: Central Asia, Afghanistan, Herat
Period
Timurid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216273

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, color and gold on paper; pricked
Dimensions
folio: 34.3 x 32.7 cm (13 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
frame: 57.5 x 43.5 cm (22 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fredrik Robert Martin, Sweden, (by 1912-1929). Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (1929-1958). John Goelet, New York (1958), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet, formerly in the collection of Louis J. Cartier
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.59
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • F.R. Martin, The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th century, B. Quaritch (London, England, 1912), vol. II, pl. 81
  • Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), p. 37, figure 59
  • Laurence Binyon and J. V. S. Wilkinson, Persian Miniature Painting: Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931, exh. cat., Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (London, England, 1933), no. 89
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 34, 51, 76-77, no. 26, ill.
  • Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exh. cat., Museum Associates (Los Angeles, CA, 1989), pp242-243, 356, cat. no. 136
  • Layla S. Diba, "Clothing", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume V, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Mazda Publishers (1992), p. 783, plate XCVII
  • Annemarie Schimmel, Terres d'Islam: Aux Sources de l'Orient Musulman, Maisonneuve et Larose (Paris, France, 1994), Pg. 56
  • Wheeler Thackston, ed., The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor, Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1996), P. 205
  • "Disorderly Conduct?: F.R. Martin and the Bahram Mirza Album", Muqarnas (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 15, 32-57, p.39, Fig. 13
  • 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 173, 240
  • Selmin Kangal, ed., The Sultan's Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman, exh. cat., Isbank (Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), page 26/figure 2
  • Ernst Grube and Renzo Zorzi, "Il Ritratto Nel Mondo Musulmano", Le Metamorfosi del Ritratto, Leo S. Olschki (Firenze, 2002), pp. 181-202, fig. 3
  • Afghanistan: une histoire millenaire, exh. cat., Fundació la Caixa (Paris, France, 2002), page 61, 177/figure 146
  • Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak, and Ernst Grube, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven; London, 2002), p. 269-270, fig. 186
  • Studies In Islamic and Later Indian Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), page 48/figure 5 and frontispiece
  • David Roxburgh, ed., Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600 - 1600, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2005), p 239/ fig 200
  • Chris Dercon, León Krempel, and Avinoam Shalem, ed., The future of tradition - the tradition of future : 100 years after the exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art in Munich, exh. cat., Prestel Verlag (München, Germany, 2010), pp. 111-116, cat. no. 22
  • Mika Natif, Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, 2018), fig. 98
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 80, ill.; pp. 298-299, no. 24

Exhibition History

  • Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
  • Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
  • The House of Timur: Princely Arts in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, 04/14/1989 - 07/06/1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 08/13/1989 - 11/05/1989
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995
  • Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997
  • The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
  • Turkic Art 600 - 1600 From Central Asia to the Golden Horn, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/22/2005 - 04/12/2005
  • The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future: 100 Years After the Exhibition "Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art" in Munich, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 09/17/2010 - 01/09/2011
  • A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2017 - 08/13/2017
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 10/21/2021 - 02/20/2022

Verification Level

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