TWO PORTRAITS: MOTHER AND CHILD AND THE LOVERS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Qajar Iran, late 19th - early 20th century

Opaque pigments, ink, pencil, and white wash on paper, comprising a vertical full-length portrait of a mother holding a child in her arms, her outfit in line with Qajar fashion with a large pink skirt and a tight light blue blouse, mounted, glazed and framed, 43cm x 34.5cm including the frame; and a similar portrait of a Qajar couple caught in a tender embrace, the man wearing a tall black kaj kolah headdress and the woman a white rusari with a polychrome striped termeh cap, mounted and framed, 43cm x 34.5cm including the frame.