01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #26

Mohammad Sadiq

A LADY AT LEISURE,  CIRCA 1770-1780

Oil on canvas

4ft.1in. x 2ft.9in. (125.5 x 84cm.)

Private collection

A young lady sits, wearing floral skirt, a sheer shirt, jewels around her neck and flowers in her hair, leaning against a floral bolster cushion, a tray of fruit before her and a bottle and glass in her hands, behind her a servant stands behind a geometric balustrade, a porcelain dish in her hands. More on this work

Mohammad Sadiq was a noted artist from 18th century Iran. He was a painter at the court of the Zand ruler Karim Khan. After Karim Khan's death, he worked for the Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. More on Mohammad Sadiq

Muhammad Sadiq was the leading painter of his generation. A pupil of Muhammad 'Ali Ashraf, Sadiq worked on the St Petersburg Muraqqa in Isfahan. After its completion, he was appointed to create two large scale paintings for the pavilion in Shiraz, a building which today serves as the Pars museum. A skilled fresco painter, his involvement in the interior decoration of the Shiraz pavilion led to a distinctive development in his compositions, whereby he started to create works which were inserted into architectural niches in buildings. The generation of court artists prior to him such as Muhammad Zaman and 'Ali Quli Jubbadar had been hugely influenced by European art, frequently copying European subjects directly. Sadiq rejected this, developing a distinctive Persian method of painting: warm hues, heavy modelling of features, the inclusion of fruit, flowers and glassware; all features of his iconic style which shaped the works of subsequent court artists and was particularly popular within the Qajar court.. More on Mohammad Sadiq

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