Woman Playing a Tambourine
1800
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The painting shows a woman playing a tambourine. She's the main focus of the painting. The woman is dressed in old-fashioned clothes and has a calm expression, which is interesting because the painting was possibly removed from a palace in Tehran. The palace was built by Fath 'Ali Shah, who liked to decorate his walls with oil paintings like this one. These paintings usually showed one large person, and the figures were often flattened. The painting is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
