Drawing on paper, tinted with watercolours. This example shows a well-to-do woman dressed in an embroidered short-sleeved upper garment over a red jacket and a tasseled cap, with a yellow skirt and blue slippers. She sits cross legged on a European-style chair. Mounted in a pair in a cardboard frame.
This painting is one of a series of watercolours which depict scenes that are well known in nineteenth century Persian painting and commercial photography. Judging by the fashions worn by the painting’s subjects they were probably painted between 1850 and 1875, quite possibly for sale to tourists. This example shows a well-to-do woman. She sits cross legged on a European-style chair. Long legged chairs like the example in this picture would have been a relatively recent introduction at the time of the painting.
