User:Footpathandstile/Farangi notes

Famous names https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6393327

Qajar Book Illustrations: https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2014.17.4/

Qalamdans, Hermitage https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/08.+applied+arts/228345 Late 1600s Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Mid 1700s

Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Late 1600s-early 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Mid 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Painted woman. Signed Zaman Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Attr Muhammad Ali ibn Muhammad Zaman

Definitely use this source: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ali-qoli-jobba-dar See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aliarda/25368013193/in/photostream/ Notice the cloud partially blocking the sun at the left (which in the original does not exist), and also the plants at the bottom right. A bush rather than a line of shrubs behind the leg Notice the designs on the footwear.

Drawing of the Ptolemaic (?) Tazza Farnese, ca. 1430-50. Signed by the calligrapher Muhammad al-Khayyam. Folio 72, p3 n. 2 of the Diez Album A.

Background https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1920-0917-0-294?_gl=1%2ai6gzc7%2a_up%2aMQ..%2a_ga%2aNzQ3Mjk1ODk1LjE3MTEwOTc4MDA.%2a_ga_JHR77E3EZ1%2aMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4xLjAuMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4wLjAuMA..%2a_ga_08TLB9R8X1%2aMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4xLjAuMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4wLjAuMA..

Continuity https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2014.17.91/ Muhammad Baqir lacquer painting https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/352094 Album of many floral and animal paintings, mostly 18th-19th century Persian but some South Asian too. https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/216516?position=216516 Great penbox https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351869?position=351869 Great Zand period penbox, Aqa Muhammad Zaman, 1780-81 https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_F1928.8/ Jabbadar & Zaman's interest in working directly off European prints did not survive long after their deaths, but stylistic aspects they pioneered- now more fully Persianized- continued under their heirs. Copies of their work in the 1700s

1786, Muhammad Sadiq II
1757
Early Qajar. Brooklyn Museum. Continuation of the washy Farangi-Sazi style of the late Safavid period.
Hermitage Museum

Equestrian portrait of Nadir Shah, possibly by Muhammad Ali ibn Abd al-Bayg ibn Ali Quli Jabbadar (grandson of Aliquli Jabbadar). MFA Boston
Sheikh San'an and the Christian Girl - Agha Zaman II - Islamic Consultative Assembly Museum of Iran
Distribution of Presents for the New Year by Shah Sultan Husayn. Painted by Muhammad Ali ibn Muhammad Zaman (son of Muhammad Zaman) and dated 1720-21. British Museum
Painting of a Young Beauty by Muhammad Sadiq. Borders signed by 'Ali Akbar, A.H. 1152/A.D. 1739, another student of 'Ali Ashraf.
Nader Shah and his entourage hunting ducks, Afsharid Iran, second quarter 18th century
Abbas II of Persia and the Mughal ambassador, dating & attribution contested. According to Layla Diba, this was made by Abu'l-Hasan Mostawfi Ghaffari (great uncle of Abu'l-Hasan Sani al-Mulk) in the late 18th century.
"Portrait of a Persian Lady", Folio from the Davis Album. dated 1149 AH/1736–37 CE. Met Museum
The fire ordeal of Siyavush. By Muhammad Sadiq, late 18th - early 19th c.(more likely the former)
Signed Muhammad Baqir. 1789. Met Museum

Into the Qajar era https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6068004?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intobjectid=6068004&from=salessummary&lid=1 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/901277 https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351924 https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351866?position=351866 mid 19th century penbox w/ flowers, with inscription referencing a late 18th century painter

ca 1825
1811 watercolor portrait of the shah by a (presumable?) student of Mihr Ali. Note how the rendering of the landscape continues developments made in earlier farangi-saz paintings
Note continuing treatment (engraver-ly) of trees, landscape, skies
1845 Luft 'Ali
1831-32 Luft 'Ali
1846-47
1856-57
mid 1800s
2nd quart 1800s
1st quarter 1800s
1880

Sources in the decorative arts

note light colors, use of stippling

Parallels

Persian single-flower studies See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/persianpainting/16242329754

Bird and flower

Shafi' Abbasi, Brooklyn Museum

Artists involved in transition

Portrait of Rustam Khan Zand ca 1779 meant for display in architectural niche. Signed Muhammad Sadiq, who some credit with pioneering the genre of life-sized single-figure royal portraits popular in the Zand & early Qajar periods