MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1615-1620

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PRINCE KHURRAM WITH A RIFLE
Mughal India, circa 1615-1620
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the young prince standing in a landscape holding a long rifle, areas of flaking and slight retouching to ground, mounted on card with blue margins with gold floral design, buff outer margin, inscribed below in gold Jahangir Padshah
Miniature 6½ x 4 3/8in. (16.5 x 11.1cm.)

Provenance

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Literature

Artibus Asiae, 1927, no.2
"Later Mughal Painting", Marg, 1958, p.44

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Lot Essay

The identificatory inscription in the border reads: "Jahangir Padshah". The inscription below the feet appears to indicate a regnal year from Jahangir, but the year is not legible.

Depsite the fact that the inscription identifies the subject as Jahangir, and that Coomaraswamy also published it as Jahangir, the physical resemblance is closer to his son, Prince Khurram. Comparison can be made with a depiction of both Jahangir and Prince Khurram where the prince is slaying a lion in the Windsor Castle Padshahnama (Beach, Milo Cleveland: King of the World, London and Washington D.C., 1997, no.30, p.79).

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