Portrait of a Lady
Not on view
This arch-shaped portrait of a lady in Turkish costume was originally intended for a niche of the same shape in a palace or pleasure pavilion in 17th century Isfahan. It would have been displayed alongside other paintings of men and women dressed in diverse costume within an overall decorative program reflective of the cosmopolitan spirit of Isfahan at the time. These works are among the earliest oil on canvas paintings produced in Iran and precursors of the well-known life-size portraits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The style is an interesting synthesis of Persian, Indian and Northern European conventions.
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