About the Artwork
Youth in European Clothing
1634
Reza 'Abbasi
ca. 1565 - 1635
Iranian
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Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Overall: 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (14.6 × 19.1 cm)
Paintings
Islamic Art
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill in memory of Dr. William R. Valentiner
58.334
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right, part of inscription: [translated: Tuesday, 22 Ramadan 1043 | Reza-i 'Abbasi]
Inscribed, mid-lower right: [translated: Completed on Tuesday, 22 Ramadan 1043 for [...]. Love makes me run, bare-headed, bare-footed / In that street like European youths (gholāmān-e farangī). Work of the humble Reza-i 'Abbasi.] [date: March 22 1634] [translation of couplet by Michael Chagnon]
Provenance
Dr. William R. Valentiner.Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969];
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sakisian, Armenag Bey. La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe siècle. Paris, Brussels, 1929, p. 138, (pl. XCIX), (fig. 178).
Ettinghausen, Richard. "Riza." In Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildende Kunstler, Thieme-Becker, ed. Leipzig, 1934, p. 406, no. 24.
Hall, Helen B. "Exhibition of Islamic Art, San Francisco." Ars Islamica, vol. 4 (1937): p. 493.
Denike, B. Zhivopis Irana. Moscow, 1938, (fig. 47).
Kühnel, Ernst. "History of Miniature Painting and Drawing." In Survey of Persian Art, vol. 3, Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, eds. London, New York, 1939, p. 1887.
Weibel, Adele. "A Riza-i Abbasi Silk." Bulletin of the DIA 22 (October 1942): (fig. 2), [date interpreted as 19 March].
Bulletin of the DIA 22, no. 1 (1942): p. 3 (ill.); p. 5.
Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. California, 1959, no. 153.
Stchoukine, Ivan. Les Peintures des Manuscrits de Shah 'Abbas Ier à la Fin des Safavis. Paris, 1964, pp. 109-110; p. 115, [date interpreted as 21 April].
DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 66.
"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, May 18, 1986, p. 7 (ill.), [DIA Advertising Supplement].
Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 128 (ill.).
Canby, Sheila R. The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi Abbasi of Isfahan. London, 1996, pp. 174-176, cat. no. 128; p. 175 (ill.).
Grabar, Oleg, and Cynthia Robinson, eds. Islamic Art and Literature. Princeton, New Jersey, 2001, (cover ill.), [reversed and very dark].
Chagnon, Micheal. "Reżā ‘Abbāsī and the Embedded Image." Bulletin of the DIA 98, no. 1 (2024): p. 25 (fig. 2).
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Reza 'Abbasi, Youth in European Clothing, 1634, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill in memory of Dr. William R. Valentiner, 58.334.
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