Woman with a spray of flowers

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio; Woman with a spray of flowers.

  Border: The painting is set in a gold-sprinkled inner frame and an outer frame with gold, red and blue rulings mounted on a gold-sprinkled paperboard.

• Marks

  On the back: Stamps: London 1931 VV28; Douanes Paris Expos.

• Provenance

  From at least 1912

  Arsène Aftandil, from at least 1912 [1]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [2]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France [3]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France [4]

  Notes:

  [1] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Arsène Aftandil by at least June 22, 1912. 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] 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. 308-309, no. 359.

  [3] François Mautin, grandson of Henri Vever, inherited Vever's Near Eastern collection upon Vever's death in 1942, see Glenn D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 10-11.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran (December 16, 2001 to May 5, 2004)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Arsène Aftandil

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Aftandil, Arsène, Vever, Henri

• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Paintings