ID 1178372
Lot 65 | A FALCONER
Valeur estimée
£ 120 000 – 150 000
SAFAVID ISFAHAN, MIDDLE OR SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Oil on canvas, the falconer stands wearing a voluminous turban, a long burnt-gold robe with long sleeves, a dagger and sword attached to a jewelled belt underneath a waist-length pale green jacket, a falconer's glove on his right hand with a perching bird, in a sparse interior, a tray with fruit and vegetables on the floor, a window, column and hanging thick curtain behind him, framed
70 x 62in. (178 x 158cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, USA, since the 1960s
Literature
M. Chagnon, "'Cloath'd in Several Modes': Oil-on-Canvas Painting and the Iconography of Human Variety in Early Modern Iran," in A. Langer (ed.), The Fascination of Persia: the Persian-European Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Art and Contemporary Art of Tehran, Museum Rietberg, Zurich 2013, Appendix II, pp. 256, 260, 299.
| Style artistique: | Séfévides (1506-1722) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Iran, Asie |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tous les autres types d'objets |
| Style artistique: | Séfévides (1506-1722) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Iran, Asie |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tous les autres types d'objets |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |
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