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Abdullah Khan Uzbeg Hawking

Attributed to: Abu'l-Hasan
Indian
Mughal period
about 1618
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink, light wash, and gold on paper
Dimensions 18.1 x 16.2 cm (7 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.647
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

InscriptionsTiny inscription below drawing, identifying artist.
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).