id:			124008
accession number:	1944.494.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.494.b
updated:		2021-03-27 12:14:21.592000

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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series:				
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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, early 17th Century
technique:	opaque watercolor and gold on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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catalogue raisonne: 

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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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	inscription:	script:  none
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

* Main gallery rotation (gallery 116): December 16, 2015 -

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PROVENANCE

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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.

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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.
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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

	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

	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

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IMAGES

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