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Painting of Farhad carving the mountain, pasted under a manuscript heading as an album page

The painting is pasted under an illuminated heading of a manuscript. It is then set in several borders like an album page and then pasted on a cardboard with another text page from a manuscript of the Shahanama with four columns on the other side (section from the reign of Shah Gushtasp). The painting depicts Farhad who is shown carving the rocks, a story well known from Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin. On the upper right, "the work of Bihzad" is inscribed but this is not a credible attribution.

Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Philip Hofer

c. 1600-1699 17th century Safavid period 1600 1699

Persian

Title: Painting of Farhad carving the mountain, pasted under a manuscript heading as an album page

Description:

The painting is pasted under an illuminated heading of a manuscript.

It is then set in several borders like an album page and then pasted on a cardboard with another text page from a manuscript of the Shahanama with four columns on the other side (section from the reign of Shah Gushtasp).

The painting depicts Farhad who is shown carving the rocks, a story well known from Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin.

On the upper right, "the work of Bihzad" is inscribed but this is not a credible attribution.

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