Reclining woman with cross and skull

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio; Reclining woman with cross and skull.

  Border: The painting is set in an oval frame surrounded by naturalistic floral sprays.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Bequest of Adrienne Minassian

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1800s, 1890s

• Topic

  Art, Cross, Qajar period (1779 - 1925), Arts of the Islamic World, Skull, Woman

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Paintings