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Portrait of Dara Shikoh

Indian
Mughal period
mid-17th century
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watecolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 19.8 × 11.2 cm (7 13/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.87
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsTrace of a Persian inscription to the left of the margin. . Inscription in back: Persian inscriptions in the middle. Persian inscriptions on paper glued onto back of mount.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)