id: 133447 accession number: 1956.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.10 updated: 2025-08-07 21:57:12.742000 Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, ink, gold and silver on paper; recto image: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1956.10 title: Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1444 creation date earliest: 1444 creation date latest: 1444 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501) technique: opaque watercolor, ink, gold and silver on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Recto Image: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran opening date: 1961-10-19T04:00:00 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). title: Muslim Miniature Paintings opening date: 1962-09-01T04:00:00 Muslim Miniature Paintings. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, Venezia, Italy (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1962); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 4, 1962-February 3, 1963). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Persian Miniature Manuscripts opening date: 1977-08-13T04:00:00 Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (1935). [lent by Minassian] (both folios?)', 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Islamic Art. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-02-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Persian Art. The Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris (October-November 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-08-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Order and Rhythm: Carpets from the Islamic World. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10-November 7, 1993).', 'opening_date': '1993-09-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014). (1956.10.a only)', 'opening_date': '2013-12-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany date: by 1914 footnotes: citations: (Adrienne Minassian [1913-1994], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1956 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1956- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 124165 Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.); recto image: 27.7 x 10.3 cm (10 7/8 x 4 1/16 in.); verso image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.169 relationship: partner of --- CITATIONS Allsen, Thomas T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. page number: 80 url: Schulz, Philipp Walter. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans. Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1914. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: vol.1, p. 87; vol II, pl. 36 url: Ackerman, Phyllis. Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art. New York: Iranian Institute of America, 1940. page number: p. 194 url: Robinson, B.W. “The Illustrated Persian Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 34 (September 1952): 69–80. page number: p.72n3 url: Robinson, B.W. “Origin and Date of Three Famous Shah-Nameh Illustrations,” Ars Orientalis I (1954): 105–112. page number: p. 105 url: Stchoukine, Ivan. Les Peintures des Manuscrits Timurids. Paris: Institut Français d’Archéologie de Beyrouth, Bibliothéque archéologique et historique, 1954. page number: pp. 44, 46, 60 url: Shepherd, D.G. “A Shahnamah Frontispiece,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43 (December 1956): pp. 213–215. page number: 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. 722 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132 Gray, Basil. Persian Painting. Cleveland: Editions d’Art Albert Sikra and The World Publishing Company, 1961. page number: pp. 96, 102–103 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d’action artistique, 1961. page number: no.1079, p. 193 url: Grube, Ernst J. and Alberta Maria Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada. Venice: N. Pozza, 1962. page number: Reproduced: no. 34, pp. 46–48 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. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n246 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. 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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 279 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n299 Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Williams, Marjorie. “Dragons, Porcelains and Demons, Cultural Exchange between China and Persia,” Orientations 17 no. 8 (August 1986). page number: Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 5 url: Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan S. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250 – 1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: p. 318, no. 24 url: Grabar, Oleg. “Toward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting,” in The Art of Interpreting: Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University vol. IX, ed. Susan C. Scott, pp. 129–162. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995. page number: Reproduced: fig. 6-2 url: Sims, Eleanor, with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube. Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. page number: p. 115, fig. 32 url: de Selliers, Diane, editor. Orient: Mille ans de poesi et de peinture. Paris: Diane de Selliers, 2004. page number: pp. 106, 107 url: Allsen, Thomas T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 9 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 132, fig. 4.3; Mentioned: P. 133 url: Harrison-Hall, Jessica. " Early Ming Ceramics: Rethinking the Status of Blue-and-White." In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 80. London: The British Museum, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 80 pl. 8.7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.10/1956.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.10/1956.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.10/1956.10_full.tif