id:			124008
accession number:	1944.494.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.494.b
updated:		2025-02-09 01:06:03.998000

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
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creation date:			early 1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1625
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722)
technique:	opaque watercolor and gold on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian)  - artist

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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islamic Art
	opening date:   1944-11-03T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

	title:		Islamic art rotation
	opening date:   2012-12-03T05:00:00
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. 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
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. [frontispiece]
	url:		https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n11

	<em>The Arts of Persia and Mohammedan India: Ninth to the Nineteenth Century</em>. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Institute, 1949.
	page number: 	no. 33
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	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. 730
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n133

	Milliken, William Mathewson. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958.
	page number: 	p. 15
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	Ghirshman, Roman. <em>Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962; [exposition]</em>. [Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 197, no. 1104, pl. CXVII
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	<em>7000 [i.e. Siebentausend] Jahre Kunst in Iran. [Ausstellung] 16. Februar bis 24. April 1962 in Villa Hügel, Essen.</em> Essen: [publisher not identified],<em> </em>1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 592, p. 188
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	Gray, Basil. "An exhibition: Sept. mille ans d'art en Iran." <em>Oriental Art</em> VIII, no. 1, (Spring 1962), 42–44.
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	Spierdijk, Jan. P<em>erzische kwatrijnen van Baba Tahir en Hafis</em>. Amsterdam: Contact, 1964.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 281
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n301

	Leach, Linda York. <em>Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 53
	url:		

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