A Large Qajar Oil Painting With Female Portrait And Floral Triumph, Late 19th Century
A Large Qajar Oil Painting With Female Portrait And Floral Triumph, Late 19th Century
1372
Oil on canvas, heightened in gold, large vertical panel cut in the shape of ogival arch, depicting a central portrait roundel with a Westernised Qajar maiden wearing a white veil and holding a string instrument, possibly a Persian lute (barbat), around her neck a string of pearls, her portrait encased within an altar of Baroque flare, each niche, vase, and tray filled with fresh floral bouquets of roses, irises, poppies, carnations and daisies, and bunches of ripe grapes, further vine trellis at the top of the arch, three pairs of birds flanking the upper and lower vases and floral triumph, varnished, stretched and mounted.
Dimensions:
Late 19th Century
Oil on Canvas
Persia
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