Two demon musicians on a composite camel, led by a third demon, Qajar Persia, signed by Sattar Tabrizi, second half of the 19th Century

pen and ink with use of some gold on paper, signed in nasta'liq script, laid down on an album page with coloured inner margins and outer borders with naturalistic floral motifs in watercolour
drawing 139 x 188 mm.; album page 200 x 278 mm.

Provenance
Formerly in a private collection, France.

The inscription reads: raqam-e sattar naqqash-e tabrizi, 'Drawn by Sattar, the Tabrizi Painter'.

The artist's biography is not recorded. Karimzadeh lists him and gives a reference to this painting, describing him as a painter of the Nasir al-Din Shah period. See Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London 1985, p. 217.

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