Mounted hunters chase gazelles as a rider spears a lion

A crowded hunting scene fills the page: mounted archers in red, blue and gold coats gallop across a pink, flower-strewn ground, one drawing his bow at full stretch from a rearing black horse while gazelles and a hare flee before them. A row of turbaned onlookers watches on foot beneath a green tree at the top, against a gold sky. Below, on green ground, a rider on a dappled white horse spears a tawny lion as a gazelle flees. Margins of blue-and-gold floral arabesque frame the scene on three sides.

Persian miniature painting reached its height in the manuscript workshops of Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz and Isfahan between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on polished paper, a folio combined text, illumination and image on a single page, and the finest illustrated copies of the Shahnameh, the Khamsa of Nizami and the Conference of the Birds were commissioned by Timurid, Safavid and Mughal courts. Leaves from these dispersed manuscripts are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library, the Chester Beatty Library and the Freer Gallery of Art.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.