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Portrait of the Poet Hafiz, folio from an album
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This tinted drawing allegedly portrays the renowned Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390). The seated figure is shown holding a handkerchief close to his eyes while placing his index finger in a book he is holding in the other hand. The folds of his clothes are voluminously shown. The drawing has no background but inscribed on top in Turkish: “This is the late Shaykh Khwaje Hafiz of Shiraz. Since he has been portrayed many times, he must have looked exactly like this.” The drawing is cut on both sides and placed in a rectangular frame as an album page with gilded marginal decoration. The drawing itself appears to have been the model for a painting in the album of Ahmed I compiled by Kalender Pasha around 1610. In that album the figure is reversed and the inscription is omitted. The figure is more stylized and wears shoes.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Sevadjian Paris sold; [through 2nd Vente Sevadjian Paris 20 March 1961 cat. no. 5]; to Edwin Binney 3rd 1961 bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums 1985.
Footnote:
Portland Edwin Binney "Turkish Treasures From the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd" Portland Museum of Art Oregon 1979 p.86
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Title: Portrait of the Poet Hafiz, folio from an album
Description:
This tinted drawing allegedly portrays the renowned Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390).
The seated figure is shown holding a handkerchief close to his eyes while placing his index finger in a book he is holding in the other hand.
The folds of his clothes are voluminously shown.
The drawing has no background but inscribed on top in Turkish: “This is the late Shaykh Khwaje Hafiz of Shiraz.
Since he has been portrayed many times, he must have looked exactly like this.
” The drawing is cut on both sides and placed in a rectangular frame as an album page with gilded marginal decoration.
The drawing itself appears to have been the model for a painting in the album of Ahmed I compiled by Kalender Pasha around 1610.
In that album the figure is reversed and the inscription is omitted.
The figure is more stylized and wears shoes.
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