The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar
- Date
- ca. 1600
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) Page: H. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm) W. 8 5/16 in. (21.1 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
- 63.210.4
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1963
Artist information
Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur
Subjects and terms
- Bread
- Men
- Women
The Met object ID 451723. 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.