id: 124007 accession number: 1944.494.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.494.a updated: 2023-08-29 11:33:56.172000 Persian Couplets (recto), Calligraphy, Persian Verses; Single Page Manuscript, late 1500s–early 1600s. Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper; overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.); text area: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.494.a title: Persian Couplets (recto), Calligraphy, Persian Verses; Single Page Manuscript title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1500s–early 1600s creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1625 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722) technique: ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Text area: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: script: Nasta'liq translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic Art opening date: 1944-11-03T04:00:00 Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Arts of Persia and Mohammedan India. Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, CA (September 28-November 21, 1949). * Exhibition of Persian Miniatures. The San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA (December 10, 1949-January 10, 1950). * Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956). * The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962); Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (February 16-April 24, 1962); Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (May 17-July 22, 1962); Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (September 4-November 18, 1962); MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (January 16-March 31, 1963). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Under Shah Abbas, the tradition in which painting was employed to illustrate a literary work was all but abandoned. In its place came a new concern with single-page illustrations, such as this one, which have no specific content or meaning. They often illustrate albums of collections of verses about love and beauty, in which these themes often appear to serve as allegories of things divine. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. [frontispiece] url: https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n11 The Arts of Persia and Mohammedan India: Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Institute, 1949. page number: no. 33 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 730 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n133 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 15 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962; [exposition]. [Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1962. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 197, no. 1104, pl. CXVII url: 7000 [i.e. Siebentausend] Jahre Kunst in Iran. [Ausstellung] 16. Februar bis 24. April 1962 in Villa Hügel, Essen. Essen: [publisher not identified], 1962. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 592, p. 188 url: Gray, Basil. "An exhibition: Sept. mille ans d'art en Iran." Oriental Art VIII, no. 1, (Spring 1962), 42–44. page number: url: Spierdijk, Jan. Perzische kwatrijnen van Baba Tahir en Hafis. Amsterdam: Contact, 1964. page number: Reproduced: cover url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 223 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n247 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 223 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n247 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 281 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n301 Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 53 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.a/1944.494.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.a/1944.494.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.a/1944.494.a_full.tif