A Wandering Youth, follower Reza-i 'Abbasi, Persia, Safavid, Isfahan, circa 1620

gouache and gold on paper, uncoloured background with landscape sketched in gold, laid down on stout paper with half of a Persian seal impression at top edge

In generally good overall condition, minor flaking with repair, consolidated tear to bottom right hand corner, slightly thumbed, as viewed.
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A similar European-style youth with his dog was later depicted by Mu'in Musavvir (see B.W. Robinson, Persian and Mughal Art, London, Colnaghi, 1976, pp.78 & 81, no.55i). A further version of the same subject also by Mu'in is in the Topkapi Album (H.2142, f.15b), and a third illustrated in Persian and Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney III, exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine, 1962, no.55. Reza-i 'Abbasi painted a related scene depicting a youth holding an excited dog on a leash also in the Binney Collection (B.W. Robinson, op.cit., pp.68 & 146, no.45).