Partly colored drawing pasted on an album leaf. ‘A Standing Dervish.’ Signed Muhsin
Iran, Isfahan; c. 1650
Leaf: 27.5 × 18 cm
Drawing: 15.1 × 7.6 cm
Drawing: 15.1 × 7.6 cm
Inventory number 145/2006
Very few works of art are known to have been made by Muhammad Muhsin, one of the many Persian artists who followed the style of Riza-i Abbasi.
The depiction of the quaint old dervish has humoristic undertones, and both the painstakingly drawn face and the calligraphically composed turban are of good quality. Muhsin’s drawings often have a solitary tree in the background, and the sky often features the jagged clouds of the traditional type with roots in Chinese art.
The depiction of the quaint old dervish has humoristic undertones, and both the painstakingly drawn face and the calligraphically composed turban are of good quality. Muhsin’s drawings often have a solitary tree in the background, and the sky often features the jagged clouds of the traditional type with roots in Chinese art.
Miniature Paintings
Miniature pasted on an album leaf. ‘A Bird on a Hazel Branch.’ Signed Shafi Abbasi
A copy of Firdawsi’s Shahnama. This miniature (fol. 44r): ‘Rustam Slaying the Dragon.’ Signed Muin Musawwir
Miniature pasted on an album leaf. ‘The Judgment of Solomon’
Oil painting on canvas. ‘An Afro-Iranian Soldier’