Yusuf on the throne with servants and officials
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Iran
City: Tehran
Place: British Embassy
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, group portrait, Iranian Qajar dynasty, Islam
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Iranian (Qajar Dynasty)
- Title
- Yusuf on the throne with servants and officials
- Date
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 122 cm, width: 72 cm
- Acquisition
- Acquired by British Embassy, Tehran
- Inscription
- Inscription on the top right-hand corner. Couplet from a ghazal of Hafiz, translated by Avery as: ‘Bravo, O Egypt’s Joseph, kept busy by the cares of a ruler. Ask of the father where in the end a son’s love went’ The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz, translated by Peter Avery, London, 2007, p. 520.
- Provenance
- British Embassy, Tehran
- GAC number
- 18752