id: 124008 accession number: 1944.494.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.494.b updated: 2022-01-04 15:31:11.755000 Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript, early 1600s. Style of Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.); overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.494.b title: Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1600s creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1625 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran. Isfahan, Safavid Period, early 17th Century technique: opaque watercolor and gold on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian) - artist --- measurements: Image: 21 x 12.4 cm (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.); Overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: script: none translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic art rotation opening date: 2012-12-03T05:00:00 Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013). title: Islamic art rotation opening date: 2015-12-16T05:00:00 Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main gallery rotation (gallery 116): December 16, 2015 - --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Paintings like this frequently illustrated collections of verses about love and beauty; these themes often appear to serve as allegories of things divine. digital description: wall description: The Iranian painter Riza ‘Abbasi spearheaded the new style with single figures, receding space, and partial modeling, influenced by European travelers to Iran and painters who accompanied foreign embassies, one being John the Dutchman who in 1626 painted narrative scenes on palace walls of Shah ‘Abbas I. This sleeping youth displays a prestigious sash and has removed his equally opulent turban. --- 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 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 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.b/1944.494.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.b/1944.494.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.494.b/1944.494.b_full.tif