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Portrait of Mirza Muhammad Hakim
Attributed to: Aqa Riza (Persian, active in India about 1580–1620)
Indian, Mughal
Mughal period
1584–1590
Object Place: possibly Lahore, Northern India or Pakistan
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 14.6 × 8.1 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.609
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsInscription by tree says "Raqm Agha Riza Murid Bakhlas," identifying the artist as Aqa Riza
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).
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).