Hunting was an enduringly popular theme in Iranian art and appears on Safavid textiles from the early sixteenth century. In this eighteenth-century example, the hunter wears a blue coat and a tall, multipronged cap with a scarf wrapped around it. The cap resembles those seen in paintings of the period of Nadir Shah Afshar (r. 1736–47), helping to date the painting to the eighteenth century.
