Publication Date
AH 1297-1306 / AD 1880-1889 (miniature and frame)
Publication Place
Possibly Tehran (miniature and frame) -
Rietberg Museum
Subject
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الأبعاد الكلية 31 × 18.8 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
2014.160
Record ID
object;EPM;sw;Mus21;5;ar
Library Location
Rietberg Museum
Date
AH 1297-1306 / AD 1880-1889 (miniature and frame)
Notes
Half a century after his death, Darwishnoor Ali Shah (c. 1161-1212 AH/c. 1748-1798 AD) enjoyed great popularity in Persia. Countless carpets from Kerman as well as numerous miniatures and oil paintings attest to this. It seems that this popularity was closely linked to the revival of Sufi traditions in the nineteenth century. All portraits known to date can be traced back to two portraits by Ismail Jalayir (d. 1289-1284 AH / 1868-1873 AD) around 1865. The sheet originally belonged to an album made for Dr. Joseph-Désiré Tholozon (1235-1315 AH / 1897-1820 AD), who was a physician. Private of Nasir al-Din Shah (ruled in the period 1313-1264 AH / 1896-1848 AD). He probably obtained the album from the Shah when he retired in 1889. This sheet bears the number 50 and is inevitably the last sheet of his album, which was broken up and probably sold in the early 1900s. The individual sheets were formerly owned by the Jean Buzy Collection and are now in the collection of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva (Switzerland).
Sample Text
Axel Langer “Portrait of the young Darwish Nur Ali Shah (ca. 1748-1798)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;sw;Mus21;5;ar
