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Woman kneeling alone

Title	Woman kneeling alone
Publication Date:	1625-1650
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	342 mm x 241 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 246.5
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1625-1650
Notes	Woman kneeling alone. Wearing only purple trousers and a yellow sash, this woman kneels with her hands raised, as if in prayer. Her eyes gaze up towards the sun. Relatively rare, female nudity became more frequent in later Safavid painting, usually in reference to exotic foreigners. This drew from imported artworks of female allegories and fashionable portraiture, from Europe. Album folio, ink, colours and gold on blue paper, mounted on card, painting of kneeling woman in yellow scarf and purple trousers with gold bird detail, her palms raised in prayer, in a light green rocky landscape with the sun in upper left corner, framed with lines of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, within ruled borders on gold-painted blue card album page, blank verso, unsigned, Isfahan, Iran, c. 1625-1650.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Album)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Woman kneeling alone

Publication Date 1625-1650

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 342 mm x 241 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 246.5

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1625-1650

Notes Woman kneeling alone. Wearing only purple trousers and a yellow sash, this woman kneels with her hands raised, as if in prayer. Her eyes gaze up towards the sun. Relatively rare, female nudity became more frequent in later Safavid painting, usually in reference to exotic foreigners. This drew from imported artworks of female allegories and fashionable portraiture, from Europe. Album folio, ink, colours and gold on blue paper, mounted on card, painting of kneeling woman in yellow scarf and purple trousers with gold bird detail, her palms raised in prayer, in a light green rocky landscape with the sun in upper left corner, framed with lines of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, within ruled borders on gold-painted blue card album page, blank verso, unsigned, Isfahan, Iran, c. 1625-1650.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Album)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script