The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Bahram Gur on the Chase", Folio 10r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami|Maulana Azhar
- Date
- ca. 1430
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 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
- present-day Afghanistan
- Object number
- 13.228.13.2
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
- Gallery
- 455
Artist information
present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja|died 1475/76
Subjects and terms
- Lions
- Horses
- Animals
- Hunting
The Met object ID 455055. 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.