Folio from an album: Left (a): resting man; right (b): seated figure with writing utensils

Object Details

• Description

  Left: "Resting man" (a): Inscription. Drawing on cream-colored paper; Right: "Sitting man with writing utensils" (b): Partly tinted drawing on brownish paper.

• Inscriptions

  Inscription on left drawing (a): "Executed in the house of the painter Mu'ina (?) on 15th Safar 1049 (June 17, 1639)."

• 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

  Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Drawing

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• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Drawings