Signed by Sayyid Ali (active 1555-1575) Search this
Medium:
Ink on paper
Dimensions:
H x W (overall): 25 x 18 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16 in)
Type:
Album
Origin:
Tabriz, Iran
Date:
circa 1540
Period:
Safavid period
Description:
Detached album folio: Seated youth holding an album (safina)
Border: The drawing is set in a faded red inner frame an outer frame with calligraphic panels in Persian black nasta'liq script, mounted on paperboard with floral motifs.
Inscriptions:
Drawing held by the youth: "the slave of his majesty the king, Sayyid-Ali [ibn] Sayyid Muhammad."
Provenance:
From at least 1912
Charles Vignier (1863-1934), Paris, from at least 1912 [1]
From at least 1913
Georges Demotte (1877-1923), Paris, from at least 1913 [2]
To 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [3]
From 1942 to 1986
Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France [4]
From 1986
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France [5]
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. 408.
[2] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Georges Demotte by at least March 1913. See citation in note 1.
[3] 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. 300-301, no. 350.
[4] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
[5] See note 4.
Collection:
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Exhibition History:
Le Chant du monde: L'Art de l'Iran safavide, 1501-1736 (October 05, 2007 to January 07, 2008)
Arts of Mughal India (2004) (August 21, 2004 to February 6, 2005)
A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
