Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
style of Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506)
c. 1485
- Medium
- opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Culture
- Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy.
