A Young Man Attending to a Falcon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

A Young Man Attending to a Falcon

Maker not identified

Date
early 17th century
Medium
Silk, metal wrapped thread, and continuous floats of flat metal thread; cut and voided velvet, bouclé
Dimensions
Textile: L. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm) W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm) Mount: H. 16 1/8 in. (41 cm) W. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm) D. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Object type
Textile fragment
Classification
Textiles
Country
Iran
Object number
46.156.5
Credit line
Fletcher Fund, 1946

Subjects and terms

  • Falcons
  • Men

The Met object ID 450722. 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.