Young Prince

Object Details

• Artist

  Signed by Muhammad Haravi

• Previous custodian or owner

  E. Beghian (1910?-1950?)

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Provenance

  From at least 1931-no later than 1937

  E. Beghian, London, method of acquisition unknown [1]

  By 1937

  H. Kevorkian, New York, method of acquisition unknown [2]

  From 1937

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from H. Kevorkian, New York [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Ernst Kühnel “History of Miniature Painting and Drawing” in “A Survey of Persian Art From Prehistoric Time to the Present”, ed. Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman [book] (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), vol. III, p. 1884: “formerly in the possession of Beghian and now in the Freer Gallery of Art”. See also Laurence Binyon, J.V.S. Wilkinson and Basil Grey, “Persian Miniature Painting: Including a Critical Descriptive catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March 1931” [book] (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), p. 133, no. 144, “Lent by E. Beghian”. Edward Beghian (1876-1962) was a dealer in carpets and antiques, with a gallery first at 18 Dover, then 37 Berkeley Streets, London, from the years 1924-1939.

  [2] Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962) was a dealer and collector of Islamic Art with eponymous galleries in New York and Paris. See note 2.

  [3] The Freer Gallery of Art paid H. Kevorkian in installments, the first on October 28, 1936, and the last on April 7, 1937, and approved on April 5, 1937. See object file for copy of invoice.

  Research updated December 6, 2022

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Beghian, E., Muhammad Harawi, Kevorkian, Hagop

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Prince, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Portraits, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

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