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"Portrait of a Persian Lady", Folio from the Davis Album

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Portrait of a Persian Lady", Folio from the Davis Album

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Date
dated A.H. 1149/ 1736–37 CE
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Page: H. 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm) W. 8 1/4in. (21cm) Mat: H. 19 in. (48.3 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Object type
Illustrated album leaf
Classification
Codices
Country
Iran
Object number
30.95.174.32
Credit line
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Gallery
450
Original Met record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Portraits
  • Women
  • Landscapes

The Met object ID 448490. 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.