- Title
- Man with a Pitchfork, Page from an Album
- Date Made
- dated July 11, 1634 (4 Safar, A.H. 1044)
- Period
- Safavid (1501-1732)
- Medium
- Ink and color washes on paper
- Dimensions
- Inner Image: 4 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (11.43 × 6.03 cm)
Sheet: 4 5/16 × 2 3/8 in. (10.95 × 6.03 cm)
Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.474
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
During the late sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries in Iran, the increased popularity of paintings independent of text illustration gave rise to new artistic developments in which portraiture was paramount. More generic representations than exacting likenesses, such portraits depicted not only sophisticated and refined courtly figures but a variety of other types as well, including mendicants, soldiers, foreigners, and peasants. By the mid-seventeenth century, translucent washes of color applied over drawings, emphasizing bold calligraphic lines, had replaced the rich opaque colors previously favored. This charming tinted drawing is inscribed with the name Riza-yi ‘Abbasi, the preeminent painter of his day, and dated 4th of Safar AH 1044 (July 11, AD 1634).
- Selected 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, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.
