Recovered from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

By Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, dated 741 AH/1341 CE.

Maker: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
Date: dated 741 AH/1341 CE
Culture: Iran
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Object type: Codices
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object no.: 448280
Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929
Dimensions: 3027 × 3717 px · portrait
Rooms: Faces in Time The Living World Ink, Paper & Impressions

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Suggested credit: "Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (dated 741 AH/1341 CE). H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 Rights: CC0. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/448280

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