Composite of sketches

Object Details

• Artist

  Riza Abbasi (ca. 1565-1635)

• Description

  Upper left: "Warrior on horseback" (a): Drawing on brownish paper with reddish stains covering head and torso of figure; Upper right: "Majnun watches camel rider" (b): Drawing on brownish paper, puckered; hole on left edge; reddish stains; Lower right: "Dog lying in landscape" (c): Drawing on grayish paper which has been covered with brown lacquer, some of which is peeled off; Lower left: "Mouse before open trap" (d): Black ink drawing with red tinting, on grayish paper.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  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

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Drawing

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• Name

  Riza Abbasi

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Landscapes, Warrior, Art, Animals, Mouse, Mouse trap, Dogs, Horses, Arts of the Islamic World, Camel

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Drawings