- Title
- A Standing Figure, Page from an Album
- Date Made
- circa 1620-1625
- Period
- Safavid (1501-1732)
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 5 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (14.61 × 6.99 cm)
Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.455
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
Among the most popular subjects of seventeenth-century Persian album paintings are handsome youths and lovely maidens (see M.73.5.458 and M.73.5.562). In many cases, these figural subjects are generic representations, but it is sometimes possible to identify them with greater precision, as may be the case with this tinted album drawing of a standing figure. Wearing Ottoman-style clothing and coquettishly twirling a lock of their hair, they possibly represent "the beautiful Turk," a conventional figure in Persian love poetry whose physical allure and fickleness cause heartache. The poetry in the surrounding frames is by Hafez.
- Selected Bibliography
- 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.
