- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached album folio; A woman detained by a kneeling youth.
Border: The painting is set in gold and black rulings with a gold-sprinkled inner frame and an outer frame with calligraphic panels in Persian black nasta'liq script, mounted on paperboard with gold floral motifs.
- Published References
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- The Story of Layla and Majnun by Nizami. New York. Cover.
- Rene Grousset. The Civilizations of the East. 4 vols., New York and London, 1931-1934. vol. 1: p. 377, fig. 286.
- Les Mille et une Nuits. Exh. cat. France. p. 181.
- Stephen Frederic Dale. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals., 1st ed. New York and Cambridge. p. 236, fig. 19.
- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 358, p. 308.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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