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A White Bird
Mu'in Musavvir (Persian, 1617–1701)
Safavid period
February–March, 1689
Object Place: Isfahan, Iran
Medium/Technique
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
18 x 11.8 cm (7 1/16 x 4 5/8 in.) painted area without surrounding border
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.635
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Signed
Mu'in Musavvir
InscriptionsInscribed in Persian: Jumada 1, 1100 [February-March, 1689], Mu'in Musavvir designed it.
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).