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Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzādc. 1485
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy.
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- Title: Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
- Creator: Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506)
- Date Created: c. 1485
- Provenance: Purchased from Philip Hofer by Edward L. Whittemore Endowment Fund, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Manuscript
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.490
- Medium: opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Fun Fact: Intoxicated, a man in blue at the lower right has fallen.
- Department: Islamic Art
- Culture: Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501)
- Credit Line: Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Accession Number: 1944.490
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