Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio, right-hand half of a double page from the "Vignier Album"; facing folio (S1986.280); Young female; one of a group of six folios; traces of two stamps on back.
- Border: The central figure is in an oval medallion surrounded by an illuminated panel of gold and lapis, the illuminated panel is set in a frame of rectangular and quatrefoil decorated cartouches in a broad gold margin painted with landscape and hunting scenes, mounted on paperboard.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- Charles Vignier (1863-1934), Paris, France. [1]
- From 1908 to 1942
- Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased from Charles Vignier, Paris, France on April 15, 1908. [2]
- From 1942 to 1986
- Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]
- From 1986
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]
- Notes:
- [1] See Glen D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 2: Ledger of Acquisitions, 1894 and 1907-17" in A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 229. See also Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al. (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 407.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
- [4] See note 3.
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Exhibition History
- Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran (December 16, 2001 to May 5, 2004)
- Crushed Lapis and Burnished Gold: The Art of Illumination (June 9 to December 8, 1991)
- A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Vignier (1863-1934)
- Henri Vever (1854-1942)
- Francois Mautin (1907-2003)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1590-1610
- Period
- Safavid period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 37.1 x 22.4 cm (14 5/8 x 8 13/16 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
