The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Khusrau and Shirin Conversing in Landscape at Night", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami
- Date
- ca. 1625–30
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on unpolished paper
- Dimensions
- Page: H. 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm) W. 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm) Painting a: H. 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm) W. 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm) Painting b: H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm) W. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
- Object type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- India
- Object number
- 1982.476.1a, b
- Credit line
- Gift of Wendy Findlay, 1982
Artist information
present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja
Subjects and terms
- Men
- Women
The Met object ID 453191. 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.