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Darbar of Jahangir

Attributed to: Manohar (Indian, active about 1580 to 1620)
Attributed to: Abul Hasan (Indian, active about 1600–1630)
Indian, Mughal
Mughal period
About 1624; some areas repainted about 1628
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink, color, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 35 × 20.2 cm (13 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.654
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, November 9, 2024 – May 5, 2025
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsPersian inscription on the bottom-left of the picture: "Amal-I-Kamtrin Khanazadan," or "by the lowest second-generation servant of the house."
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).