The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran

19 Oct 1961 – 31 Jan 1962

Persian Verses: The Fortieth Year of King Kisra Nushirwan's Reign and the Story of Buzurgmihr (recto); Portrait of Nushirwan the Just (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), 1330–35

Exhibition

Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

19 Oct 1961 – 31 Jan 1962

Documented entries: 8
Participants: 1

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Persian Verses: The Fortieth Year of King Kisra Nushirwan's Reign and the Story of Buzurgmihr (recto); Portrait of Nushirwan the Just (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
1330–35
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Picnic in the Mountains; Single Page Illustration
c. 1550–1600
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Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
c. 1485
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Camel and Groom; Single Page Illustration
c. 1545–1576
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Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama
1330–35
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Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025)
1444
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Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
1444
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style of Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian)
Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)
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1 participants

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Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
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Cleveland Museum of Art · Record 518751Checked 2026-10-11
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