- Title
- Members of Court of Selim II as Crown Prince
- Date Made
- circa 1561-62
- Period
- Ottoman (1281-1924)
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 17 9/16 × 12 3/16 in. (44.6 × 31 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.85.237.20
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
From the late sixteenth century until the formation of the Republic of Turkey in 1922, the Ottoman sultans maintained a strong tradition of imperial portraiture. Influenced by European oil painting and Persian miniatures, Ottoman portraits provide important information about court ceremonies, changing fashions, and members of the court. The right side of a double-page composition, this painting was created as a pendant to a portrait of Selim II on the left, now in the collection of the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. The musicians, servants, and courtiers, who are identified by their inscriptions, face left, toward the sultan, in a show of deference to their ruler.
- Selected Bibliography
- Binney, Edwin, 3rd. "Turkish Arts of the Book in the Binney Collection." Arts of Asia 17, no.6 (Nov/Dec 1987): 97-104.
- Komaroff, Linda, editor. Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2023.
