Hunting Scene
Mat: 19 × 14 inches (48.26 × 35.56 cm)
Exhibition of Muhammedan-Persian Art, The Galleries of Charles of London, New York, March-April, 1914, no. 99.
Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 75.
Private collection, Paris;
With Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, possibly by 1914 [1];
Purchased from Hagop Kevorkian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.
[1] A 1914 exhibition catalog, Exhibition of The Kevorkian Collection including Objects Excavated under his Supervision, includes cat. no. 99 Hunting Scene, probably by Mirak. Although his collection included several hunting scenes, this appears to be the only example associated with Mirak.
Hagop Kevorkian, Exhibition of the Kevorkian Collection including Objects Excavated under his Supervision, exh. cat. (London, Hagop Kevorkian, 1914), unpaginated.
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), 250, (repro.).
Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 31.
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), 162, (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), 404, (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), 29, fig. 19, (repro.).
Kimberly Masteller, “From Court to Marketplace: Persian and Indian Textiles in the Nelson-Atkins Collection and their Foreign Collectors,” Orientations 53, no. 3 (May/June 2022): 51, (repro.).
