Surveying the picture of Nasir al-din shah being shoot

Nasir al-Din shah’s murder caused big change in the Iran society. Although the matter is a subject to make much art works, but not in Iran. The only picture that was drawn from the event belongs to a French artist on the cover of the small Parisian newspaper. Having surveyed the parts of the picture, the location of the event from the viewpoint of the artist and its difference with reality is surveyed and also the attitude of the artist to whole of the event is clarified, by comparing of the murderer in the painting and the pictures that the artist has in his mind about Iran of that time. Having surveyed the picture, it becomes cleared that the artist painted the location of the event in the Gulistan palace and not in the Shan Abd al- Azim shrine, but only the framework of the picture is similar to the real form of the palace. In addition, by comparing the picture of the murderer to the appearance, face and clothes of the dervishes of that era, there is no doubt that the painter depicted Mirza Riza Kirmani as a dervish from the poorest people of the society, but not as a trader. With regard to the age that the picture was drawn (the third republic) and the newspaper (a leftist newspaper) that published the picture, it seems that the painter depicted the picture by a type of intimacy to show that the values of the French revolution appeared in other parts of the world and the dervishes of the society punished the shahs in the front of their severely humiliated palaces.