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Identification and Creation
Object Number
2011.529
People
Attributed to Sultan Muhammad, Persian (16th
century)
Title
A Beggar Kisses the Foot of the Prince’s Horse
Classification
Drawings
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Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1535-1540
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Black ink on off-white paper
Dimensions
12.5 x 20 cm (4 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Provenance
[Armenag Sakisian], by 1929. [Annie Kevorkian], by
1965, sold; to Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warner, New
Hampshire (November 1965-2008), by inheritance; to
Edith I. Welch, Warner, New Hampshire (2008-2011),
gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2011.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The
Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in
memory of Stuart Cary Welch
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Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.529
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
[email protected]
Descriptions
Description
In the center of this drawing, a young prince rides a
beautiful stallion. The youth watches and gestures
toward a barefoot man who kneels to kiss the foot of
the stallion. An emaciated nag stands behind the
kneeling man. This nuanced line drawing conveys the
psychological characteristics of the different
personages of the prince and the poor man.
Publication History
Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au
XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France,
1929), page 83/figure 149
Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The
Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA, 1981), Page 86/Figure 121
Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind,
Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings
from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale
University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2004), pp. 44-45,
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Farid al-Din Attar, Layli Anvar, and Michael Barry, Le
Cantique des Oiseaux: illustré par la peinture en Islam
d’orient, Diane de Selliers (Paris, 2012), p. 358, ill. p.
359.
Exhibition History
Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg
Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from
the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th
Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums,
Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995
From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and
Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art
Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005
- 06/02/2005
Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 3) Sacred Spaces: The
World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, Harvard Art
Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge,
08/06/2009 - 01/03/2010
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at
[email protected]
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