Seated figure and a figure with outstretched hands

Object Details

• Description

  Drawing of a seated figure (right) and a figure with outstretched hands (left), mounted together on paper.

• Label

  The two drawings on this page were created independently of each other and were mounted together at the time of the album's creation. The portrait of a Mughal nobleman (left) is dated the 12th of Shawwal, 1050 (January 1641). Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing through the 1600s, there was a fairly constant flow of people, from ambassadors to artists and merchants, between Iran and India. The rather generalized features of this figure suggest that it may have been copied from a drawing rather than from life.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Riza-i Abbasi Album (May 10, 1985 to September 3, 1985)

  The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran (October 14, 1978 to May 30, 1979)

  Collection of Friedrich and Maria Sarre (1932)

  Die Ausstellung Islamischer Buchkunst im Berliner "Art of the Islamic Book" (February to April, 1910)

  Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Mohammedanischer Kunst in München (May to October 1910)

• Origin

  Probably Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Drawing

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• Date

  1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1500s, 1610s, 1600s, 1590s, 1540s, 1650s, 1530s, 1640s, 1520s, 1630s, 1510s, 1620s, 1580s, 1730s, 1690s, 1570s, 1680s, 1560s, 1670s, 1550s, 1660s

• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Drawings