{"data": {"id": 124002, "accession_number": "1944.490.a", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto), c. 1485. Style of Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470\u20131506). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 24.4 x 14.1 cm (9 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.); overall: 27 x 17.2 cm (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1944.490.a", "current_location": null, "title": "Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto)", "creation_date": "c. 1485", "creation_date_earliest": 1480, "creation_date_latest": 1490, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370\u20131501)"], "technique": "opaque watercolor and gold on paper", "support_materials": [], "department": "Islamic Art", "collection": "Islamic Art", "type": "Manuscript", "measurements": "Image: 24.4 x 14.1 cm (9 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.); Overall: 27 x 17.2 cm (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"image": {"height": 0.244, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.141, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5625}, "overall": {"height": 0.27, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.172, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 519268, "title": "Muslim Miniature Paintings", "description": "<i>Muslim Miniature Paintings</i>. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, Venezia, Italy (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1962); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 4, 1962-February 3, 1963).", "opening_date": "1962-09-01T04:00:00"}, {"id": 517994, "title": "The Classical Style in Islamic Painting", "description": "<i>The Classical Style in Islamic Painting</i>. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 1, 1968-January 4, 1969).", "opening_date": "1968-11-01T05:00:00"}, {"id": 443710, "title": "Persian Miniature Manuscripts", "description": "<i>Persian Miniature Manuscripts</i>. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977).", "opening_date": "1977-08-13T04:00:00"}, {"id": 294015, "title": "Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)", "description": "<i>Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).", "opening_date": "2018-10-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>International Exhibition of Persian</em> <em>Art</em>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931). [Lent by Philip Hofer, New York]", "opening_date": "1931-01-07T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination.</em> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934).", "opening_date": "1933-10-09T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts</em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956).", "opening_date": "1955-12-15T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Persian Art</em>. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-05-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>7000 Ans d'art en Iran</em>. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-10-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections</em>. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).", "opening_date": "1962-09-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>The Classical Style in Islamic Painting...</em>. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (November 6, 1968-January 4, 1969).", "opening_date": "1968-11-06T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Imperial Images in Persian Painting</em>. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).", "opening_date": "1977-08-13T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Philip Hofer [1898\u20131984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "? by 1931\u20131944", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1944\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Intoxicated, a man in blue at the lower right has fallen.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. 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Quaritch, 1912.", "page_number": "Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 43; Reproduced: Vol. II pl. 68", "url": null}, {"citation": "Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Maurice Sven Dimand. <em>A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination.</em> [Portland, Me.]: [The Southworth Press], 1933.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 19", "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/137388"}, {"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"Three Iranian Miniatures.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 32, no. 4 (1945): 35\u201341.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 35", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141194"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 723", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132"}, {"citation": "Grube, Ernst J. <em>Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada. 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