id: 123433 accession number: 1943.658.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.658.a updated: 2024-08-08 16:00:06.283000 Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama, 1330–35. Iran, Tabriz, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 45.8 x 34.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.); image: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.); text area: 41 x 29.5 cm (16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.658.a title: Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1330–35 creation date earliest: 1330 creation date latest: 1335 current location: creditline: Grace Rainey Rogers Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Tabriz, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353) technique: opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 45.8 x 34.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.); Image: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.); Text area: 41 x 29.5 cm (16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Script: Naskh translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Classical Style in Islamic Painting opening date: 1968-11-01T05:00:00 The Classical Style in Islamic Painting. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 1, 1968-January 4, 1969). title: Persian Miniature Manuscripts opening date: 1977-08-13T04:00:00 Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'International Exhibition of Persian Art. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1933-10-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Persian Art. Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1955-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Persian Art. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic Art Exhibition. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (April 9-May 17, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-08-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Georges Demotte [1877-1923], New York, NY) date: c. 1910-? footnotes: citations: Wells date: footnotes: citations: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867–1943], New York, NY date: before 1943 footnotes: citations: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1943 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1943- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. page number: 257 and 160 url: Curatola, Giovanni, and Gianroberto Scarcia. Iran: l'arte persiana. Milano: Jaca Book, 2004. page number: 198-199 url: Exhibition of Persian Art (1931, London). Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art: 7th Jan. to 28th Feb., 1931. 1931. page number: url: Parke-Bernet Galleries. French XVIII Century Furniture, Paintings, Drawings, Etc., Collection of Grace Rainey Rogers 1943/11/18-20. [N.Y.]: [Parke-Bernet galleries, Inc., auctioneers], 1943. page number: 140 url: Grabar, Oleg, and Sheila Blair. Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980. page number: 154-155 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 720 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n131 Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni, eds. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor], 2002. page number: Reproduced: cat no. 56, p. 257, fig. 187, p. 160 url: Curatola, Giovanni, and Gianroberto Scarcia. Iran: l'arte persiana. Milano: Jaca Book, 2004. page number: Reproduced: fig.162, pp. 198-199 url: Hagedorn, Annette, and Norbert Wolf. Islamic Art. Hong Kong: Taschen, 2009. page number: Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 18 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.658.a/1943.658.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.658.a/1943.658.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.658.a/1943.658.a_full.tif