''The Zoka-ol-Molk I'' is a
painting
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by the
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian
realism painter Kamal-ol-molk
Mohammad Ghaffari ( fa, محمد غفاری), better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (), was an Iranian painter and part of the Ghaffari family in Kashan.
Biography
Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk, born in Kashan in 1848, to a family wi ...
with
oil on
cotton duck
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. It was painted in 1913 and features
portrait
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of
Mohammad Hossein Foroughi titled Zoka-ol-Molk I father of
Mohammad Ali Foroughi titled Zoka-ol-Molk II.
Sources
commons.wikimedia.org
Paintings by Kamal-ol-molk
1913 paintings
Modern paintings
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