ID 1306366
Lot 75 | PORTRAIT OF A PRINCE
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED RABI I AH 1054 MAY-JUNE 1644 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, dated in the lower left, set within single gold rule, pasted onto later card mount, 'AHR' stamp in lower right corner, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.5 x 11.3cm.); mount 12 ¼ x 9 5/8in. (31.2 x 24.6cm.)
Provenance
Alexis Hubert Rouart (d. 1911), Paris (monogram on folio)
By repute, Private Collection, Spain, by the 1970s
Engraved
Dar shahr-i rabi' al-awwal sana 1054 mashq (?) shud, 'It was drawn (?) in the month of Rabi' I in the year 1054 (1644)'
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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