Afrasiyab Killing Naudar, a folio from the Great Il-Khanid (Mongol) Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (40.01 x 29.21 cm)
Les Arts de L’Iran: L’Ancienne Perse et Bagdad, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1938, no. 10 as Exécution d’Afrasiâb agenouillé.
Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 9-May 17, 1959, no. 139 as Afrasiyab Killing Nawdar.
Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 21 as Afrasiyag Killing Nawdar.
Classical Style in Islamic Painting: Examples from American Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, November 6, 1968-January 4, 1969, no. 10 as Afrasiyab Killing Nawdar.
Islamic Art Across the World, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, June 18-October 1, 1970, no. 44 as Afrasiyab Killing Nawdar.
Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, August 13-September 11, 1977, no. 193(g) as Afrasiyab killing Nawdar.
Imperial Library, Gulistan Palace, Teheran, Iran, by 1909[1];
With Kelekian, Paris, and Demotte, Paris, by 1913;
Joseph Homberg, Paris, by 1938[2];
With Paul Mallon, New York and Paris, by 1954;
Purchased from C. Edward Wells by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.
[1] A letter from Edward C. Wells, in the accession file, explains that the original manuscript left Iran with a man named Raffy with the assistance of Shah Mallayan.
[2] In the catalogue for the 1938 exhibition, Les Arts de l’Iran L’Ancienne Perse et Bagdad, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, this folio is credited to the J. Homberg collection.
Henry Corbin et al., Les Arts de l’Iran L’Ancienne Perse et Bagdad, exh. cat. (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1938), 136.
Doris Brian, “A Reconstruction of the Miniature Cycle in the Demotte Shah Namah,” in Ars Islamica 6 (1939): 101, fig. 9, (repro.).
Oleb Grabar, Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1959), 43, 72, (repro.).
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), 249, (repro.).
Asia Magazine 2, no. 4 (January 28, 1962): 23, (repro.).
Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 12.
Ernst J. Grube, The Classical Style in Islamic Painting: The Early School of Herat and its Impact on Islamic Painting of the Later 15th, the 16th and 17th Centuries (Germany: Edizioni Oriens, 1968), pl. 10, 185, (repro.).
Theodore Bowe, Islamic Art Across the World, exh. cat. (Bloomington: Indiana University At Museum, 1970), 32, 55, fig. 43b, (repro.).
Lindsey Hughes Cooper, “Genius and Invention: Artists and Artisans in Iran,” in Apollo 97, no. 3 (March 1973): 94, fig. 11, (repro.).
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), 160, (repro.).
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council Gallery, 1977), 87.
Oleg Grabar and Sheila Blair, Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 82-83, 178, (repro.).
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 218-19, no. 125, (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), 28, fig. 16, (repro.).
