AlbumsOttoman16th-17th century

Houri in a Paradise Garden

c. 1600

Classification

Albums

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Culture

Ottoman

Period

Ottoman period

Century

16th-17th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art

Dimensions

folio: 31.9 × 20 cm (12 9/16 × 7 7/8 in.) mat: 50.8 × 35.6 cm (20 × 14 in.) frame: 53.5 × 38.3 × 2.5 cm (21 1/16 × 15 1/16 × 1 in.)

Provenance

F.R Martin, London (by 1912). [Sevadjian, Paris (by 1960)] sold; to Jean Pozzi, Paris (1960-1970), sold; through [Vente Pozzi, Palais Galliera, Paris, 5 December 1970, lot 90]; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1970, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985. Footnote: Edwin Binney, "Turkish Treasures From the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd", Portland Museum of Art, Portland Oregon, 1979, p.51. Jean Pozzi (1884-1967), the French Ambassador to Constantinople in the 1930s.

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