A PERSIAN MINIATURE BY MO’EN MOSAVVER SCHOOL, DATED MUHARRAM 1075 AH/1664 AD

A couple sitting in a garden being entertained by musicians. Ink, color, and gold on paper 30 by 21 cm.

Mo’en Mosavver was a Persian miniaturist, one of the significant in 17th-century Safavid Iran. Not much is known about the personal life of Mo’en, except that he was born in ca. 1610-1615, became a pupil of Reza Abbasi, the leading painter of the day, and probably died in 1693. Over 300 miniatures and drawings attributed to him survive. He was a conservative painter who partly reversed the advanced style of his master, avoiding influences from Western painting. However, he painted a number of scenes of ordinary people, which are unusual in Persian painting Moen was born in Isfahan and probably spent all of his life in this city. He enjoyed a long and successful career stretching from around 1630 to 1693.

PROVENANCE Private collection, Dr. I .Lak United Kingdom