Youth with a Sprig of Narcissuscirca 1595-1600

Not on view

Title: Youth with a Sprig of Narcissus
Place Made: Iran, Qazvin or Isfahan
Date Made: circa 1595-1600
Medium: Ink and color washes on paper
Dimensions: 7 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (18.1 × 8.89 cm) Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number: M.73.5.562
Classification: Manuscripts
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes: This depiction of an elegant young dandy holding a flower sprig exemplifies the types of pen-and-ink drawings that became popular in seventeenth-century Iran. Here the artist uses line to capture the fullness of the youth’s turban, the swaying folds of his robe, and the delicate tendrils of curled hair around his face, imbuing the drawing with a subtle lyricism and reinforcing the man’s leisurely attitude.
Selected Bibliography: 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.

Not on view

Title: Youth with a Sprig of Narcissus
Place Made: Iran, Qazvin or Isfahan
Date Made: circa 1595-1600
Medium: Ink and color washes on paper
Dimensions: 7 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (18.1 × 8.89 cm) Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number: M.73.5.562
Classification: Manuscripts
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes: This depiction of an elegant young dandy holding a flower sprig exemplifies the types of pen-and-ink drawings that became popular in seventeenth-century Iran. Here the artist uses line to capture the fullness of the youth’s turban, the swaying folds of his robe, and the delicate tendrils of curled hair around his face, imbuing the drawing with a subtle lyricism and reinforcing the man’s leisurely attitude.
Selected Bibliography: 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.