Ispahan - Cour intérieure de la grande Mosquée
1842
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1842
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Ispahan - Cour intérieure de la grande Mosquée is a 1842 watercolor by Eugène-Napoléon Flandin, a Orientalism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a grand courtyard with a big mosque at the center. The mosque has two tall towers and a large dome in the middle. The walls are made of stone with arches and windows, and a few people walk around the open space. The artist focused on the details of the building’s design, like the patterned tiles and the way light hits the dome. The sky is painted with soft clouds, giving the scene a calm feel. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this watercolor in person.
A watercolour drawing by Eugène-Napoléon Flandin from 1842, depicting the courtyard of the Great Mosque in Isfahan. The work is a reduced version of an earlier pencil drawing on blue paper, dated 28 May 1840, held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It reflects the architectural details of the Masjid-i-Shah as recorded in Flandin and Pascal Coste’s *Voyage en Perse*. The drawing was purchased by Crenshaw in December 1977.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Eugène-Napoléon Flandin spent years wandering Persia with a sketchbook and a stopwatch, timing how long it took for shadows to stretch across the tile floors of mosques.
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