The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Maulana Azhar|Nizami
- Date
- ca. 1430
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm) W. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm) Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 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
- 13.228.13.4
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
Artist information
died 1475/76|present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja
Subjects and terms
- Palaces
- Kings
- Princesses
The Met object ID 455057. 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.