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Partly colored drawing pasted on an album leaf. ‘A Prince with Courtiers in a Landscape’. Attributed to Muhammad Qasim
Iran, Isfahan; c. 1650
Drawing: 22.9 × 13 cm
A prince is seated under a tree, surrounded by a number of elderly courtiers, two young women making music, and a flock of young pages. On the other side of a little brook sits an old man with an open book that reads, “O God, forgive those with an obedient heart” – perhaps a slightly bitter comment on the company’s drinking.
The prince is most probably Shah Abbas II (1642-1666), one of Abbas the Great’s most competent successors although he, like many of his companions, had a hankering for alcohol.
This beautiful drawing, with the figures’ heavy, slightly melancholy eyelids, was undoubtedly made by Muhammad Qasim.
Lent to the exhibition
Deviant Ornaments
The National Museum, Oslo, Norway
28 November 2025 – 15 March 2026
The prince is most probably Shah Abbas II (1642-1666), one of Abbas the Great’s most competent successors although he, like many of his companions, had a hankering for alcohol.
This beautiful drawing, with the figures’ heavy, slightly melancholy eyelids, was undoubtedly made by Muhammad Qasim.
Lent to the exhibition
Deviant Ornaments
The National Museum, Oslo, Norway
28 November 2025 – 15 March 2026
Inv. no. 154/2006
Published in:
Kjeld von Folsach: For the Privileged Few: Islamic Miniature Painting from The David Collection, Louisiana, Humlebæk 2007, cat.no. 90;
Kjeld von Folsach, Joachim Meyer: The Human Figure in Islamic Art – Holy Men, Princes, and Commoners, The David Collection, Copenhagen 2017, cat.no. 51;
Kjeld von Folsach, Joachim Meyer and Peter Wandel: Fighting, Hunting, Impressing. Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500-1850, The David Collection, Copenhagen 2021, fig. 30, p. 87;
Kjeld von Folsach, Joachim Meyer: The Human Figure in Islamic Art – Holy Men, Princes, and Commoners, The David Collection, Copenhagen 2017, cat.no. 51;
Kjeld von Folsach, Joachim Meyer and Peter Wandel: Fighting, Hunting, Impressing. Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500-1850, The David Collection, Copenhagen 2021, fig. 30, p. 87;