A Seated Dervish, Persia, Qajar, 19th Century

oil on canvas, framed

In very good condition, with very minor loss to paint on wooden frame at bottom right corner, as viewed.
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Paintings such as this of dervishes accompanied by their symbolic equipage, reached their apex in the second half of the nineteenth century.  It was at this t.mes that Qajar painters began to experiment with new techniques and subject matter, resulting in a greater propagation of realist, figurative art, then ever before (for other paintings of Dervishes see Diba and Ekhtiar 1998, pp. 259-60).