The depiction of a youth casually propping himself against a bolster seems to have been especially popular in seventeenth-century Iran, each representation having the same basic outline and details. This particular example was mounted as an album page, with two verses by the poet Jami (d. 1492) pasted along its top and bottom edges. Here the Persian couplets can be interpreted as playfully mocking the innocence—and perhaps the ignorance—of the youth: "Sometimes a rhyme is defective, sometimes a conceit is illogical. / Since you are far from making rhymes and conceits, you are excused from whatever you do in this regard."