Album page: a group of dervishes

Object Details

• Description

  Line drawing in black, red and blue inks; lightly tinted. Paper.

• Label

  This drawing represents a group of ten figures gathered around a large wine jar, over which one of them is leaning. The jar resembles Chinese Ming dynasty wares, which were in great demand during this period.

  The motley assortment of dervishes and youths in the foreground of this image are engaged in the pleasurable pursuit of intoxication. Drinking figures, alone or in groups, are often portrayed in 17th-century Iranian paintings and form an important thematic group.

• Provenance

  To 1940

  Heeramaneck Galleries, New York to 1940

  From 1940

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries, New York in 1940 [1]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. For additional information, see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• 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)

  Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)

  Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Paintings (May 1, 1945 to September 25, 1947)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Heeramaneck Galleries (active 1928-1964)

• Origin

  Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Album

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• Name

  Heeramaneck Galleries

• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Albums