The Armenian Clergy
Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (33.34 x 23.5 cm)
Islamic Art, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3, 1944-February 4, 1945, unnumbered.
The Miniature in Persian Art, The Arts Club of Chicago, April 9-May 9, 1963, no. 42.
Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 29 as Page from Hafiz-I Abru, Majma al Tawarikh, written for Shah Rukh in 1423.
Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, August 13-September 11, 1977, no. 179.
With Emile Tabbagh (1879/80-1933), Paris and New York, by 1933;
Inherited from Emile Tabbagh by his wife, Marie Tabbagh, Paris and New York, and his sons, Maurice and Henri Tabbagh, Paris, 1934-1936[2];
The Emile Tabbagh Collection: Early Mediterranean and Near Eastern Art, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, January 3-4, 1936, no. 227 as Five Frankish Priests;
With Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, by 1944;
Purchased from Hagop Kevorkian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
[1] Emile Tabbagh’s collection was sold in two separate auctions following his death on December 31, 1933. The first was held March 20-21, 1935, Paris, and the final auction held January 3-4, 1936, New York.
[2] Probate information published in New York Times (March 6, 1934):44.
A Magnificent Collection of Near Eastern and Early Mediterranean Art, Property of the Late Emile Tabbagh (New York: American Art Association in association with Anderson Art Galleries, Inc., 1936), 125.
Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944), 10, (repro.).
Arthur Upham Pope, Masterpieces of Persian Art (New York: The Dryden Press, 1945), 165, plate 123, (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), 174, (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), 248, (repro.).
The Arts Club of Chicago, The Miniature in Persian Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1963), unpaginated, (repro.).
Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 16.
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), 161, (repro.).
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council Gallery, 1977), 79, (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), 28-29, fig. 17, (repro.).
