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"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

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"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v 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
Painting: H. 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm) W. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) 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
13.228.13.3
Credit line
Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja|died 1475/76

Subjects and terms

  • Horses
  • Bow and Arrow
  • Men
  • Hunting
  • Deer

The Met object ID 455056. 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.