Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.618 depicts a supposedly pious man being fanned by a slave and watched by a king who is surprised at his hypocrisy.
Provenance
Private collection, Tehran [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [list of books, by an anonymous owner, which were in his house in Tehran on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
