Detail: In our sixteenth year exhibiting at Asia Week New York, we are delighted to showcase forty exquisite court paintings from India and Persia. Among the highlights is A portrait of a reclining beauty, a captivating Persian interpretation of the Renaissance tradition of the reclining female nude, as depicted by Raphael and Raimondi. This exceptional work comes from the collection of the late Pierre Le-Tan (1950–2019), the late artist/illustrator famous for his New Yorker covers.

Another standout is Pensive youth in a garden, a rare painting of a wistful, love-struck youth—an artistic genre that flourished in Iran under the Safavids in the 16th century and continued into the 17th. Dating from 1575, this fine work was formerly in the Sevadjian collection, Paris, where it was sold at Hotel Drouot in 1960.