Nourmahal

Unknown (American)

Ryder, Albert Pinkham (1847-1917) (formerly attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
19th century
Height:
49.5 cm  (19 1/2 in.)
Width:
72.3 cm  (28 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood
Place of creation:
United States

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 32.67.2]

Description

The character Nourmahal is shown playing lute outdoors. Nourmahal is a character in the poem "The light of the haram," from Lalla Rookh: an Oriental Romance by Thomas Moore, written in 1817.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Moore, Thomas. Lalla Rookh: an Oriental romance (New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1817) 299-336.

Notes

Formerly attributed to and falsely signed "AP Ryder".

RIdIM record id

3424