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| "The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet) |
"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Artist:Painting by Mustafa ibn Vali
Patron:Commissioned by Sultan Murad III (r. 1574–95)
Author:Mustafa b. Yusuf al-Darir al-Erzerumi
Object Name:Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date:ca. 1595
Geography:Made in Turkey, Istanbul
Medium:Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions:H. 14.56 in. (37 cm)
W.10.22 in. (26 cm)
Classification:Codices
Credit Line:Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
Accession Number:1994.141
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460
This miniature once belonged to the fourth volume of a six-volume work devoted to the life of the Prophet commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Murad III (r. 1574–95). Depicted are the encounter of the Archangel Gabriel and the shepherd 'Amr ibn Zaid, set against a landscape dominated by rocks and trees.
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