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| Title | A Persian King Presented with a Captured Tiger (Leopard) |
| Artist | Joannes Stradanus |
| Date | c. 1596 |
| Institution | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
| Location | Not on view. |
| Medium: | Drawings and Watercolors, Drawing | Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, border line in browm ink, incised and partially pounced for transfer |
| Size: | 7 3/16 x 10 11/16 in. (18.26 x 27.15 cm) |
| Creation Place: | Europe, Netherlands |
| Culture: | Europe, Netherlands |
| Style: | 16th-17th century |
| Inscriptions: | Signature; Inscriptions Signed in ink, LR: [Stradanu. f.] Inscribed in brown ink, verso (same hand as signature?): [un Roy de Perse à la chasse prend un Tigre qui avoit un Colier qui lui avoit etté mis par un des ses Predecesseurs] (A king of Persia at the hunt takes a tiger that has a collar that has been placed on him by one of his predecessors); and [A la plume lavé de Bistre rehauts de Blanc] (in pen, washed with bistre, heightened with white). |
| Credit: | Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Collector's Fund |
| Accession Number: | 69.54 |
| Artist: | Joannes Stradanus, Flemish, 1523 - 1605 |
| Role: | Artist |
| Nationality: | Flemish |
| Life Dates: | Flemish, 1523 - 1605 |
| Added to Site: | February 28, 2009 |
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