Standing Figure

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Standing Figure

Iran, Isfahan, about 1620
Manuscripts; folios
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
5 3/4 × 3 in. (14.61 × 7.62 cm) Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (M.73.5.477)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

In Persian lyric poetry, the beloved is traditionally described as young and beautiful, with a body like a gently swaying cypress, eyebrows arched like two bows, and lips tightly puckered like a roseb...
In Persian lyric poetry, the beloved is traditionally described as young and beautiful, with a body like a gently swaying cypress, eyebrows arched like two bows, and lips tightly puckered like a rosebud. The beloved’s gender is, however, often left unspecified. The figure portrayed in this seventeenth-century album painting from Iran closely conforms to the physical ideal described by poets, and in step with the poetic tradition, the artist seems to have left the subject’s gender deliberately vague.
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Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Taylor, Alice. Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995.
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