La punition d'Amir Khan Shah
Isfahan, Iran, workshop of Mu'in Mosavver, ca. 1680
Ink, gouache and gold on paper mounted on cardboard.
Size: 29.7 x 20 cm sheet, 24 x 14.9 cm net
Amir Khan Shah's sentence, Isfahan, Iran, circle of Mu'in Musawwir, circa 1680
Under the gaze of Shah Ismail I on horseback, positioned on the right of the miniature, his rival Amir Khan Shah undergoes the punishment of imprisonment in a well.
Page from a version of the History of the Ornament of the World Shah Ismail or Tarikh-e alam-ara-ye Shah Esmail; an anonymous work that allegorically recounts the life of the first Safavid king.
Related works :
Our painting is related to a manuscript in the British Library Or. 3248, painted by Mu'in Mosavver around 1650, as well as the one kept in the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran (Ms.77.1.17).
