1960, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1960, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
New York: Dutton, no. 52, p. 108.
Inscription: [on black band against background] PADRE MIO SIENO SALVI CHOSTORO PEQUALI TU / VOLESTI CHIO PATISSI PASSIONE (My Father, let those be saved for whom you wished me to suffer the Passion); DOLCIXIMO FIGLIUOLO PELLAC: / TE CHIO TIDIE ABBI MIA DI CHOSTORO (Dearest Son, because of the milk that I gave you, have mercy on them)
Florence: Giovanni Cirri, 1887. pt. 1: p. 241, pt. 2: p. 151. Poggi, Giovanni.
Ca. 1911, known and possibly purchased by Ernst Herzfeld, near Tell al-Deylam (ancient Dilbat); by 1914, collection of Frida and/or Georg Hahn, Berlin, who most probably acquired it from Ernst Herzfeld; 1939, left on deposit at the British Museum by the Hahn family; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from Charlotte Weidler, New York, on behalf of Georg Hahn
New York: Dutton, no. 13, p. 83.
Folios from an Album of CalligraphyMounted within colorful ebru (marbled) papers and surrounded by parti-colored inner borders, these two pages of graceful calligraphy form part of a leather-bound album composed of six folios
p.5 recto, p.4 verso p.1 p.4 Artwork Details Use your arrow keys to navigate
Inscription: (in each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on scabbard hanging from man on left): AVE : / REGINA . C[AELORVM] (Hail the Queen of the Heavens [reference to one of the Marian antiphons]) (on dog’s collar, left): OFANGRE (too fragmentary for interpretation) (on dog’s collar, center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929. p. 326. Rorimer, James J.
Brooklyn, p. 84. Fischer, Henry G. 1977.
The Artist: The great history painter and portraitist Jacques Louis David studied with Joseph Marie Vien and then, in 1766, entered the school of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
B[onnefoy]. de B[ouyon].
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19(12): p. 294.Richter, Gisela M.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19(12): p. 294. Richter, Gisela M.
Provo, Utah, 1994, p. 73, fig. 44, ill. Laurence Libin.
Watteau, the son of a roofer, left Valenciennes for Paris about 1702 to work there as a copyist and assistant to Claude Gillot (1673–1722) and Claude III Audrun (1658–1734). He became interested in theater and fell under the spell of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
, ill. opp. p. 226 [reprinted, Paris, 1929, p. 67, no. 414, ill. opp. p. 66].
