Description
- Abstract:
- Man and woman wearing crowns and ornate matching purple garments kneel on a carpet facing each other in a landscape setting. Attendants wait. Interesting compositional arrangement of people and trees. Detailed depiction of woven carpet upon which the two central figures kneel.
- Notes:
- Physical Description: Image is well preserved. Some discoloration in human faces, also in area to the left-center side of the image. Calligraphy very well preserved. Leaf is mounted on ivory-tone gold-fleck paper. Vivid color palette in painting with very symmetrical composition.
- Support: Paper
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"Leaf"
Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:80664/
Relations
Collection:
-
Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings
...Miniature paintings from the estate of Mrs. Adrienne Minassian. The paintings often include text from Persian and Indian tales. Many of the illustrations within the Minassian Collection are depictions of stories from the classical Persian text, Shahnama of Ferdowsi.
The …