Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)

Description

The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy.

Provenance

Purchased from Philip Hofer by Edward L. Whittemore Endowment Fund (?-1944); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1944-)

Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)

Bihzad

c. 1485

Accession Number

1944.490

Medium

opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

Manuscript

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Edward L. Whittemore Fund