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"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Calligrapher Maulana Azhar (died 1475/76)
Poet Nizami
Painting by Unknown
ca. 1430
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm) W. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm) Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
- Culture
- present-day Afghanistan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, 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
