The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi|Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn (?) Husaini, known as al-Mausili|al-Hasan Qawam al-Daula wa'l-Din

Date

dated A.H. 741/1341 CE

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting with Text Block: H.11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm) W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) Page: H.14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm) W. 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran

Object number

29.160.21

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929

The Met object ID 448279. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.