Painting of Farhad carving the mountain, pasted under a manuscript heading as an album page
c. 1600-1699
Description
The painting is pasted under an illuminated heading of a manuscript. It is then set in several borders like an album page and then pasted on a cardboard with another text page from a manuscript of the Shahanama with four columns on the other side (section from the reign of Shah Gushtasp). The painting depicts Farhad who is shown carving the rocks, a story well known from Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin. On the upper right, "the work of Bihzad" is inscribed but this is not a credible attribution.
Dimensions
32.5 x 21.2 cm (12 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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