Drawing on paper, tinted with watercolours. Thie painting shows a well-to-do woman, standing. She wears a shawl and tasseled head dress above a wide pink skirt, trousers and slippers. In her hands she holds a cap ornament or ‘aigrette’. 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. In her hands she holds a cap ornament or ‘aigrette’.
