Persian Peasant Men Dying Clothes
Datec. 1880
Place MadeIran (Persia)
Mediumminiature egg tempera on paper
Dimensionsboard: 11 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (29.2 × 19.1 cm)
Framed: 16 × 12 × 1 1/4 in. (40.6 × 30.5 × 3.2 cm)
Framed: 16 × 12 × 1 1/4 in. (40.6 × 30.5 × 3.2 cm)
Classificationspainting
Credit LineGift of Mabel Dodge Luhan
Object number1980.0098.0001
DescriptionFour male figures wearing robes and head scarves dyeing textiles blue by dipping them into three large vats. Several smaller containers are scattered on the ground around them amid flowers. Three textiles, 2 blue and one white, are draped over a line behind them. Image is surrounded by a gold mat.On View
Not on view
c. 1700
c. 1700
c. 1880
c. 1880
c. 1977