Stag, Serpent and Herb (recto); An Herb, Egyptian Sweet Clover (verso)
Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst, Munich, 1910, no. 589 as Miniaturblatt einer arabischen Handschrift.
Exhibition of Islamic Art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 24-March 22, 1937, no. 21 as Medicinal Plant and a Deer Carrying a Snake.
Persian Miniatures, Pottery, and Sculpture, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 10-November 22, 1937, no cat.
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 9, case 2, no. F as Folio with Miniature.
Islamic Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3, 1944-February 4, 1945, unnumbered.
Islamic and Indian Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 16, 1955-February 19, 1956, no cat.
Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 4 as Stag, Serpent and Simple.
With Léonce Rosenberg (1879–1947), Paris, by 1910 [1];
With Kirkor Minassian (1874–1944), New York, by 1937 [2];
Inherited from Minassian by his wife, Mrs. Kirkor Minassian (née Antonette P. Clark (1874–1961), New York, by 1944 [3];
Purchased from Minassian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944 [4].
[1] Folio included in the Prospekt (volume 4 with photographs of 216 works) of the exhibition catalogue, Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst in Munich 1910. Entry notes that it is in the Rosenberg collection. Léonce Rosenberg lent other miniature paintings from his collection for this exhibition.
[2] Folio included in a 1937 Persian exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Kirkor Minassian is credited as the lender. See Eric Schroeder, “The Persian Exhibition and the Bihzad Problem” in The Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art 7, no. 1 (November 1937): 14, (repro.).
[3] Statement of ownership signed by Antoinette P. Minassian in 1944, NAMA curatorial files.
[4] Invoice dated August 16, 1944 from Mrs. Kirkor
Minassian, NAMA curatorial files.
Friedrich Sarre and F. R. Martin, Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerke
Muhammedanischer Kunst in Munich 1910, exh. cat. (London: Alexandria Press,
1910), IVI,
plate 589, (repro.).
“La Collection de miniatures détachées de M. Léonce Rosenberg de Paris,” in La Bibliofilía 16, no. 5/6 (Agosto-Settembre, 1914)): 182-83, (repro.).
Eric Schroeder, “The Persian Exhibition and the Bihzad Problem” in The Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art 7, no. 1 (November 1937): 14, (repro.).
Walter Heil and Aga-Oglu Mehmet, Exhibition of Islamic Art, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1937), 26.
Eric Schroeder, “The Persian Exhibition and the Bihzad Problem,” in Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University 7, no. 1 (November 1937): 14, (repro.).
“Rare Examples of Islamic Art in the Minassian Collection,” in The Art News 37, no. 10 (December 3, 1938): 16, (repro.).
Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 244.
Hugo Buchthal, “Early Islamic Miniatures from Baghdad,” in The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 5 (1942): 21-22, fig. 7, (repro.).
Islamic Art: Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944), 5, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 173, (repro.).
Maurice S. Dimand, “An Exhibition of Islamic and Indian Paintings,” in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 14, no. 4 (December 1955): 85.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 248, (repro.).
Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 3.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 159, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 402, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 27, fig. 13, (repro.).
