# "Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

**Hafiz** (Iranian, 1325–1390)  
ca. 1480  
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper  
Painting: H. 6 5/16 in. (16 cm) W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm) Page: H. 11 3/4 in. (29.9 cm) W. 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.81.4. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446892).

## About this work

Hafiz painted this in about 1480. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.

### [Hafiz](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hafiz)

Iranian, 1325–1390; born in Shiraz; died in Shiraz

## Facts

- Type: Codices
- Real size: about 7 × 4½ in (18 × 11 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 15th century
- Subjects: Men, Dancing
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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