Seated youth holding an album

Object Details

• Artist

  Signed by Sayyid Ali (active 1555-1575)

• Description

  Detached album folio: Seated youth holding an album (safina)

  Border: The drawing is set in a faded red inner frame an outer frame with calligraphic panels in Persian black nasta'liq script, mounted on paperboard with floral motifs.

• Inscriptions

  Drawing held by the youth: "the slave of his majesty the king, Sayyid-Ali [ibn] Sayyid Muhammad."

• Provenance

  From at least 1912

  Charles Vignier (1863-1934), Paris, from at least 1912 [1]

  From at least 1913

  Georges Demotte (1877-1923), Paris, from at least 1913 [2]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [3]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France [4]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France [5]

  Notes:

  [1] See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 408.

  [2] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Georges Demotte by at least March 1913. See citation in note 1.

  [3] See Glenn D. Lowry et al., An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 300-301, no. 350.

  [4] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.

  [5] See note 4.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Le Chant du monde: L'Art de l'Iran safavide, 1501-1736 (October 05, 2007 to January 07, 2008)

  Arts of Mughal India (2004) (August 21, 2004 to February 6, 2005)

  A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Vignier (1863-1934)

  Georges Demotte (1877-1923)

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Tabriz, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Album

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Vignier, Charles, Demotte, Georges, Vever, Henri

• Place

  Tabriz

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Youth

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Albums