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Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

early 1600s

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style of Riza-yi Abbasi

(Iranian)

Iran. Isfahan, Safavid Period, early 17th Century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Image: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.); Overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.494.b

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Paintings like this frequently illustrated collections of verses about love and beauty; these themes often appear to serve as allegories of things divine.

Description

The Iranian painter Riza ‘Abbasi spearheaded the new style with single figures, receding space, and partial modeling, influenced by European travelers to Iran and painters who accompanied foreign embassies, one being John the Dutchman who in 1626 painted narrative scenes on palace walls of Shah ‘Abbas I. This sleeping youth displays a prestigious sash and has removed his equally opulent turban.

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Citations

Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Reproduced: p. [frontispiece] archive.org

The Arts of Persia and Mohammedan India: Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Institute, 1949. no. 33

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 730 archive.org

Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. p. 15

Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962; [exposition]. [Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 197, no. 1104, pl. CXVII

7000 [i.e. Siebentausend] Jahre Kunst in Iran. [Ausstellung] 16. Februar bis 24. April 1962 in Villa Hügel, Essen. Essen: [publisher not identified], 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 592, p. 188

Gray, Basil. "An exhibition: Sept. mille ans d'art en Iran." Oriental Art VIII, no. 1, (Spring 1962), 42–44.

Spierdijk, Jan. Perzische kwatrijnen van Baba Tahir en Hafis. Amsterdam: Contact, 1964. Reproduced: cover

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 223 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 223 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 281 archive.org

Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 53

Exhibition history

Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013).

Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016).

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