Iskander Comforts the Dying Darius

Iran (Shiraz, Fars)

1590

Medium

Gouache on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

Page: 30 × 19.5 cm (11 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Painting: 16.8 × 12.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 in.)

Culture

Iran

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Ann McNear Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Paintings
• 1500s
• Iran
• Brown