Medallion and Animal Carpet
c. 1600
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
wool pile on silk warp and wool and cotton weft
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 437 x 225 cm (172 1/16 x 88 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.477
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Théodore Mante, Marseilles, by 1913.[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after purchase by funds of the Estate;[2] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Mante lent the carpet to a 1913 exhibition in Paris.
[2] The date of sale by Duveen to the Widener estate was 16 December 1922. It is recorded in Edith Standen's notes on the Widener collection (copy in NGA curatorial files). This date was not included in the provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry (Little et al. 1998, 302-307).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1913
Exposition d'objects d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, Hôtel de Sagan, Paris, 1913, no. 344, pls. 79, 80.
1940
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, 13, no. 16 (Guide by Phyllis Ackerman).
1947
An Exhibition of Antique Oriental Rugs, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1947, no. 22, repro., as Herat.
1972
From Persia's Ancient Looms, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 1972, unnumbered, repro.
1976
The Arts of Islam, Hayward Gallery, London, 1976, no. 61, repro.
Bibliography
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 134.
1938
Pope 1938-1939, 3:2328; 6:pl. 1148.
1941
Erdmann, Kurt. "The Art of Carpet Making." In A Survey of Persian Art. Rezension. Ars Islamica 8 (1941): 163.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19, as Persian 16th Century, Animal rug.
1945
Pope, Arthur Upham. Masterpieces of Persian Art. New York, 1945: color pl. D (mis-identified: caption for this plate is actually the caption for the frontispiece, and frontispiece is captioned with information about the NGA carpet). Reprinted London, 1960, and Westport, Connecticut, 1970.
1959
Dilley, Arthur U. Oriental Rugs and Carpets. New York, 1931: 11. Rev. ed., Philadelphia, 1959: pl. 9.
1965
Ellis, Charles Grant. "Some Compartment Designs for Carpets and Herat." The Textile Museum Journal 1 (1965): 54, 55 (n.11).
1972
From Persia's Ancient Looms. Exh. cat. Textile Museum, Washington, 1972: fig. 3 (cat. by Richard Ettinghausen).
1976
The Arts of Islam. Exh. cat. Hayward Gallery, London, 1976: 100, pl. 61.
1979
Eiland, Murray. Chinese and Exotic Rugs. Boston, 1979: 160-161.
1987
Bennett, Ian. "Splendours in the City of Silk. Part 2: Ten Safavid Masterpieces." Hali 33 (January/February 1987): 43.
1994
Klose, Christine. "Large Tree-and-Animal Carpet of the 'Herat' Group, Persia, 16th Century." The Textile Museum Journal 32/33 (1993-1994): 43, no. 18, fig. 4.
1997
Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Widener's Gift." Hali 92 (May 1997): 88-97, 120, fig. 4.
1998
Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 302-307, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62268468