"A Night-time Gathering", Folio from the Davis Album
Muhammad Zaman
dated 1664–65 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper · Islamic Art
This painting by the late Safavid painter Muhammad Zaman depicts two scholars and their Indian attendants who confer by candlelight. Signed and dated "the year 7", this work may have been executed in the seventh year of the emperor Aurangzeb, recording the first of two comets sighted in the northern hemisphere in December 1664 and April 1665. Scholars have suggested that perhaps Muhammad Zaman produced this image in India, or that he painted it in Iran in his eclectic style, which combined European and Mughal Indian elements.
- Artist
- Muhammad Zaman
- Date
- dated 1664–65
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
