ManuscriptsPersian14th century
Rustam Shoots Isfandiyar in the Eyes (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Ilkhanid Shahnama (Book of Kings)
c. 1335
Dimensions
folio: 50 x 39.5 cm (19 11/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
Provenance
[George Demotte, Paris, (active 1900-1923)]. Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA (by 1958), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art.
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