The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Youth Seated by a Willow; Single Page Illustration
c. 1600–1650
style of Muhammad Yusuf
Sheet: 33.5 x 21.9 cm (13 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.); Image: 15 x 9.6 cm (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.499
Location: Not on view
Description
A new aesthetic developed under the socially and economically conscious Shah ’Abbas I (reigned 1587–1629). Single polychrome paintings of elegantly clad youth were produced in considerable number during the 1600s, primarily for people with means who collected them and had them mounted in albums. Instead of functioning as portraits, the images of these courtly figures express ideals of youth and beauty. This young man’s lavish sash and turban enriched with costly gold thread proclaim his high status.- ?–1947(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1947–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Hollis, Howard C. “Two Seventeenth-Century Persian Miniatures.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 4 (1948): 63–64. Mentioned: pp. 63–64; Reproduced: p. 62 www.jstor.org
- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016).Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016).Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1947.499