Alexander Comforts the Dying Darius, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Islamic (Turkmen style)

Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), c.1480/90

Medium
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Image: 10.3 × 14.4 cm (4 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.); Page: 34 × 21.6 cm (13 3/8 × 8 1/2 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