id:			124008
accession number:	1944.494.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.494.b
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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, early 17th Century
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

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116): November 14 2012 - December 9, 2013.<br>Main gallery rotation (gallery 116): December 16, 2015 -

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PROVENANCE

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In the late 1500s, a new artistic aesthetic developed under the socially and economically conscious Shah ’Abbas I (reigned 1587–1629), who established Isfahan as the grand capital of Iran, improving its infrastructure and foreign trade with Europe, especially for the export of raw silk. Made for patrons in the marketplace, landscape paintings began to feature isolated figures in pastoral and daily life settings on single pages, replacing the idealized court paintings made for shahs. Here, the sleeping youth wears a voluminous silk sash enriched with gold thread and a billowing turban that cushions his head in the willow tree, both signs of nobility.
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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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