A Stallion
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 11 7/8 in. (30.1 cm) W. 8 in. (20.3 cm) Page: H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) W. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
- Origin
- present-day Afghanistan
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection, Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, and Richard S. Perkins and Margaret Mushekian Gifts, 1992
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Animal Portrait Both · 99%
The image depicts one isolated horse as the principal subject, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art lists Horses as the subject of A Stallion.
Visual Qualities
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Single Object Visual · 96%
A single horse occupies the central painted panel, with no competing figures or setting.
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Flatness Visual · 94%
The horse and surrounding ornament are rendered in a largely flat profile composition with limited recession or modeling of space.
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Patterns Visual · 95%
The horse covering, harness, plume, borders, and scattered page decoration contain extensive repeated floral, foliate, linear, and geometric ornament.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 92%
The central subject and page surround are densely decorated, especially through the gold-colored covering and multiple framed borders.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the work as a painted album leaf made with ink and opaque watercolor.
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Work on Paper Both · 99%
The catalog specifies ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, and the image shows an image-bearing paper leaf with painted and decorated margins.
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Album, Folio and Fan Formats Metadata · 96%
The work is classified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an illustrated album leaf within the Codices department classification.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog date of circa 1601–6 places the work in the seventeenth century.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 98%
Gold is explicitly included in the catalog medium, and gold-colored decoration is visibly used in the horse covering and page ornament.
Source & rights
Habiballah of Sava. A Stallion. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.