Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi, Khusraw Parviz seated on the Takht-i taqdis; one of a group of three folios.
The painting was cut from the text and mounted on a board.
Provenance:
1912
Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, France. [1]
From at least 1913
Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947), Paris, France. [2]
To at least 1931
Octave Homberg, Paris, France. [3]
1931
Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Collection de Octave Homberg, 3-5 June, 1931, no. 102. [4]
To 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [5]
From 1942 to 1986
Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [6]
From 1986
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [7]
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. 404. According to the publication, it was an ex-collection of Arthur Sambon. See Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), p. 42, no. 136.
[2] At the time of the publication of Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), the manuscript folio was in the collection of Léonce Rosenburg.
[3] 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. 404.
[4] See auction catalogue from Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, objets d'art et de haute curiosité européens et orientaux, objets d'extrême-Orient, meubles et sièges, sculptures et bronzes du XVIIIe siècle, composant la collection de Octave Homberg, no. 102, p. 51.
[5] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
[6] See note 5.
[7] See note 5.
Collection:
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Exhibition History:
A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
