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| Seated Scribe, 1479-1481 |
GENTILE BELLINI (VENICE, ABOUT 1429 - 1507, VENICE)
Pen in brown ink with watercolor and gold on paper, 18.2 x 14 x 2.6 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 x 1 in.) sheet
ACCESSION NUMBER
P15e8
DIMENSION NOTES
Frame: 49.2 x 37.5 x 36.8 cm (19 3/8 x 14 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
PROVENANCE
Probably painted around 1479-1480 when Gentile Bellini was sent by the Venetian Republic to Constantinople to serve as a painter to Sultan Mehmet II (1432-1481).
Probably sent as a gift or trade to the Aqqoyunlu court in Tabriz (later became the Safavid capital) in the fifteenth century.
In the collection of Bahram Mirza (1518-1550), the youngest son of Shah Isma'il of the Persian Safavid court by 1544-45 when it was mounted into an album by Dust Muhammad, a Persian painter, calligrapher, and art historian.
The album was purchased by the Swedish collector, scholar and dealer Fredrik R. Martin (1868-1933) from a Turkish family in Istanbul around 1905.
Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased this single sheet from Fredrik R. Martin on 13 September 1907 for £1,500 through the Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920).
MARKS
Annotated in Persian on attached cartouche (upper right): amal-i ibn-i mu'azzin ki az ustâdân-i mashhûr-i firang-ast (The work of ibn-i mu'azzin, who is among the well-known masters of Europe)
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