The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Death of Farud", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
- Date
- ca. 1610
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Page: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm) W. 4 7/8 in. (2.4 cm) Painting: H. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm) W. 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)
- Object type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- India
- Object number
- 1985.405.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1985
Artist information
Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus
Subjects and terms
- Poetry
- Men
- Death
The Met object ID 453267. 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.