album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1921,0614,0.1.15
- Title
- Series: Persian Costumes
- Description
-
Portrait of a young woman; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A young woman stands clutching her breasts as her child raises his arms toward her. She wears a flowered jacket, an orange blouse untucked at the waist and revealing her belly, and a bright pink skirt. A transparent blue veil is partially draped over a striped cap with a feather and a jewel embellishment. The child wears a white skirted waistcoat. Album contains 19 paintings of Persian costumes.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. Album bound in green leather with gold gilt trim, with pages of gold trim. Includes loose letter (in French) on thin blue paper describing contents and addressed to recipient.
- Production date
- 1842
- Dimensions
-
Height: 18.30 centimetres (image (av.))
-
Height: 26.50 centimetres (manuscript)
-
Height: 25.60 centimetres (page)
-
Thickness: 1.10 centimetres (manuscript)
-
Width: 11.80 centimetres (image (av.))
-
Width: 20 centimetres (manuscript)
-
Width: 18.40 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- See 1921,0614,0.1 .1-.19 for all folios included in this album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1921,0614,0.1.15