Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album
Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.7 × 15.9 cm (9 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Outermost Border: 15.4 × 29.7 cm (6 1/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Paper: 47.4 × 30.8 cm (18 3/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Origin
- India
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- CC0
- Credit
- Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Group of Portraits Both · 99%
The catalog identifies the work as four portraits, and the image visibly presents four distinct human figures in separate framed compartments.
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Flora Visual · 99%
The page is densely surrounded by flowering plants, blossoms, leaves, branches, and repeated botanical sprays.
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Animals Visual · 95%
Birds and butterfly-like insects are visibly distributed among the floral ornament.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%
Layered frames, dense vegetal ornament, patterned grounds, repeated floral motifs, and metallic accents cover much of the page surface.
Medium and Techniques
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Watercolor Metadata · 99%
The work is classified as Drawing and Watercolor, with opaque watercolor specified in the medium.
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Work on Paper Both · 99%
The catalog specifies paper as the support, and the image clearly shows a vertically oriented decorated paper page.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 90%
The principal portrait and border components are dated to the 18th century, including the Iranian portraits dated circa 1740 and 1748 and the mid-18th-century borders.
Geographic Regions
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Indian Art Metadata · 97%
The place of origin is recorded as India, and the lower portraits are identified as works of the Mughal school.
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Iranian Art Metadata · 97%
The upper portraits are identified as Iranian, and the catalog also attributes the borders and calligraphy to Iran.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 99%
Gold is explicitly listed in the medium as opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper; gold-colored accents are also visible in the image.
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Silver Metadata · 98%
Silver is explicitly listed in the catalog medium as opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper, although its visual appearance cannot be isolated with certainty from the supplied image.
Cultural and Religious Styles
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Islamic Art and Architecture Metadata · 95%
The catalog classifies the work as Islamic in culture or style and identifies Iranian and Mughal-associated components.
Source & rights
Mir Emad Hassani. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76888/st-petersburg-album-top-left-iran-c-1740-top-right-iran-c-1748-bottom-left-india-18th-century-bottom-right-india-18th-century-borders-iran
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,970 × 3,000 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed