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Reclining Nude
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Reclining Nude

Riza-yi Abbasi
c. 1590
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The story

Scholars have long traced this nude to a Renaissance engraving of Cleopatra by Marcantonio Raimondi that Riza may have studied. A 2021 study pushes back, arguing she comes from the beloved of Persian poetry and painting, not a European model.

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Object details

Title
Reclining Nude
Artist
Riza-yi Abbasi
Date
c. 1590
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Ink and colour on paper (album page)
Object type
Drawings
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington (F1954.24)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.1172
Original image
1974 × 3000 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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