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Young man with lion. Page from an album
(شاب مع أسدصفحة من ألبوم)

Title	Young man with lion. Page from an album
Title Original	شاب مع أسدصفحة من ألبوم
Author	Afzal Al-Husseini
Author Original	أفضال الحسيني
Publication Date:	1646 AD
Publication Place	- Khninko Museum
Subject	Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Isfahan School
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 16.3 سم ، العرض : 19.9 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	454 ГРВ
Record ID	object;EPM;uc;Mus21;8;ar
Library Location	Khninko Museum
Date	1646 AD
Notes	The scene shown is being in the garden of a Persian Shah or noble person. Only the upper class of Iranian society can keep predatory animals of the cat family in their gardens, and what the young man wears on his head corresponds to the Safavid fashion of the mid-seventeenth century AD. The artist who wrote the painting is Afzal al-Husseini (also called Mir Afzal Tony), who is younger and a contemporary student of Reza Abbasi. Mainly known as a master of drawing nudes, the painter Afzal preferred to embody the pleasures of Persian aristocrats: youth or love scenes in the garden. In addition to the artistic form, the artist also indicates this with an inscription in the lower right part of the page that says: “On the first day of the month of Jumada II of the year 1056, the drawing was completed by the most humble Afzal Al-Husseini.” Since the late sixteenth century, Iranian miniatures have assumed a role as an independent part of art. During that period, respect for the artist's work and his creative and economic freedom was growing, and it became much easier to secure a living by producing a single page of work rather than working on an entire book. The separate drawings as well as the layout pages with poems formed albums (marqa) that reflect the aesthetic and intellectual demand of wealthy collectors of such objects.
Sample Text	"A young man with a lion. A page from an album" from Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;8;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK
Seçili bibliyografya	Canby, Sheila R. (ed),Safavid Art and Architecture, London: British Museum Press, 2002.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.
Atölye	Isfahan school

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Young man with lion. Page from an album

(شاب مع أسدصفحة من ألبوم)

Author Afzal Al-Husseini

Author Original أفضال الحسيني

Publication Date 1646 AD

Publication Place - Khninko Museum

Subject Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Isfahan School

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 16.3 سم ، العرض : 19.9 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 454 ГРВ

Record ID object;EPM;uc;Mus21;8;ar

Library Location Khninko Museum

Date 1646 AD

Notes The scene shown is being in the garden of a Persian Shah or noble person. Only the upper class of Iranian society can keep predatory animals of the cat family in their gardens, and what the young man wears on his head corresponds to the Safavid fashion of the mid-seventeenth century AD. The artist who wrote the painting is Afzal al-Husseini (also called Mir Afzal Tony), who is younger and a contemporary student of Reza Abbasi. Mainly known as a master of drawing nudes, the painter Afzal preferred to embody the pleasures of Persian aristocrats: youth or love scenes in the garden. In addition to the artistic form, the artist also indicates this with an inscription in the lower right part of the page that says: “On the first day of the month of Jumada II of the year 1056, the drawing was completed by the most humble Afzal Al-Husseini.” Since the late sixteenth century, Iranian miniatures have assumed a role as an independent part of art. During that period, respect for the artist's work and his creative and economic freedom was growing, and it became much easier to secure a living by producing a single page of work rather than working on an entire book. The separate drawings as well as the layout pages with poems formed albums (marqa) that reflect the aesthetic and intellectual demand of wealthy collectors of such objects.

Sample Text "A young man with a lion. A page from an album" from Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;8;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK

Seçili bibliyografya Canby, Sheila R. (ed),Safavid Art and Architecture, London: British Museum Press, 2002.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.

Atölye Isfahan school