A mounted hunter, attributable to Reza-i ‘Abbasi, Persia, Safavid, late 16th century

ink on paper, laid down on an album page with animals amid foliage filling the outer margins, an applied line of nasta'liq text on the upper inner border

In reasonably good overall condition, a few stains and creases, as viewed.
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The present finely-executed and detailed study of horse and rider can be compared to a drawing signed by Reza-i 'Abbasi that represents part of an album page sold in these rooms, 8 July 1980, lot 212 and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (published in S. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer, London, 1996, p.52, Cat.16). The treatment of the horse's head, knotted tail, as well as the rocky landscape are so closely comparable in both drawings that we can suggest the possibility that the master artist Reza-i 'Abbasi is also the artist of the drawing to hand.