The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Alexander the Great and Dying Darius", Folio from a Majma' al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru
Hafiz-i Abru
- Date
- ca. 1425
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on brownish paper
- Dimensions
- H. 17 in. (43.2 cm) W. 13 in. (33 cm)
- Object type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Object number
- 52.20.3
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952
- Gallery
- 455
Artist information
Iranian, born Khorasan–1430 Zanjan
Subjects and terms
- Horses
- Alexander The Great
- Men
The Met object ID 451083. 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.