

Turkey
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
page: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (34.3 x 22.2 cm), mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1944 (44.30)
This painting is one of a series that seems originally to have been collected or perhaps even painted for one particular album. Only one of the portraits has an inscription identifying the ruler represented (Sultan Selim); the others, like this one, have a cartouche at the top of the miniature which perhaps was meant to contain an inscription. The sultan is represented alone without any assisting figures, seated on a carpet in a room with tile decoration, depicted in the typical fashion of the late sixteenth-century Turkish school.







