*A YOUNG SHEPHERD HOLDING A FAWN PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Possibly Isfahan, Iran, 17th century, Reza Abbasi school Pen and ink drawing on paper, with highlighted areas in opaque pigments and gold, the vertical composition depicting a young shepherd wearing a flowing pleated robe and a traditional 17th-century Safavid purple hat, holding a fawn in his arms whilst walking in a gold-heightened natural landscape, his facial expression conveying a sense of tranquillity and peace, a rubbed inscription in black ink by his feet with a date in Arabic the month of Shaban '149' (possibly 1049?) now hardly readable, set within golden and orange rules and brown and turquoise borders, mounted on a purple album page on white cardboard, 14.5cm x 7.3cm excluding the border and the mount. A similar tinted drawing, coming from the same collection and attributed to the Reza Abbasi school in Isfahan, was successfully sold in these Rooms on 25 October 2019, lot 267. (14.5cm x 7.3cm excluding the border and the mount.)