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ATTRIBUTED TO BASAWAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1575-80
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A FAMILY OF CHEETAHS IN A ROCKY LANDSCAPE
ATTRIBUTED TO BASAWAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1575-80
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on cloth, laid down on gold-flecked blue borders, the salmon pink margins similarly flecked with gold, reverse plain, mounted
Painting 11 ¾ x 7 3⁄8 in. (29.8 x 18.6cm.); folio 15 ¾ x 10 ¾in. (40.1 x 27.2cm.)
ATTRIBUTED TO BASAWAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1575-80
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on cloth, laid down on gold-flecked blue borders, the salmon pink margins similarly flecked with gold, reverse plain, mounted
Painting 11 ¾ x 7 3⁄8 in. (29.8 x 18.6cm.); folio 15 ¾ x 10 ¾in. (40.1 x 27.2cm.)
Provenance
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1978
Literature
T. Falk, "Mughal and Rajput Painting", Indian Painting, Mughal and Rajput, and a Sultanate Manuscript, Colnaghi, London, 1978, no.3, p.18 and colour frontispiece
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book - The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca, 1982, no.50, pp.149-151
A. Kevorkian, "Les Très Riches Heures de L'Aga Khan", Connaissance des Arts, no.372, February 1983, fig.9, p.67
S. Safrani, "The Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan", Arts of Asia, vol.14, no.6, 1984, p.61
M. Brand and G. Lowry, Akbar's India, Art from the Mughal City of Victory, New York, 1985, no.46, pp.79, 81, 148
M.C. Beach, Early Mughal Painting, Cambridge, MA.,1987, fig.14, pp.27-9
B. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Wonders of a Golden Age, Zurich, 1987, no.62, pp.134-5
A. Okada, Indian Miniatures of the Mughal Court, Paris and New York, 1992, p.80, fig.77
S. Verma, Mughal Painters and their Works, Delhi, 1994, p.132
Divyabhanusinh, The End of a Trail, New Delhi, 1995, p.51.S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.78, p.108
S. Canby, Princes, Poets et Paladins, London, 1998, no.78, p.108-9
S. Canby, Der Glanz des Orients, Zurich, 1998, no.15, pp.56-7
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.78, p.108-9
A. Okada, "Basawan", in P. Pal (ed.), Master Artists of the Imperial Mughal Court, Marg, Mumbai, 1991, pp.4-5, fig.2
A.K. Das, Wonders of Nature, Marg, Mumbai, December 2012, pp.14, 18, fig.1.6
Z. Khanam, Birds and Animals in Mughal Miniature Painting, New Delhi, 2009, p.33
J. Seyller, "Basawan" in M.C. Beach, E. Fischer and B.N. Goswamy (eds.), Masters of Indian Painting, Artibus Asiae Supplementum 48, I /11, Zurich, 2011, p.121, no. 18
A. Qureshi de Unger, The Hunt as Metaphor in Mughal Painting, Artibus Asiae Supplementum, Zurich, 2022, fig.10ii
Divyabhanusinh, The Story of India's Cheetahs, Marg, Mumbai, 2023, p.50 and cover image
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book - The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca, 1982, no.50, pp.149-151
A. Kevorkian, "Les Très Riches Heures de L'Aga Khan", Connaissance des Arts, no.372, February 1983, fig.9, p.67
S. Safrani, "The Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan", Arts of Asia, vol.14, no.6, 1984, p.61
M. Brand and G. Lowry, Akbar's India, Art from the Mughal City of Victory, New York, 1985, no.46, pp.79, 81, 148
M.C. Beach, Early Mughal Painting, Cambridge, MA.,1987, fig.14, pp.27-9
B. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Wonders of a Golden Age, Zurich, 1987, no.62, pp.134-5
A. Okada, Indian Miniatures of the Mughal Court, Paris and New York, 1992, p.80, fig.77
S. Verma, Mughal Painters and their Works, Delhi, 1994, p.132
Divyabhanusinh, The End of a Trail, New Delhi, 1995, p.51.S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.78, p.108
S. Canby, Princes, Poets et Paladins, London, 1998, no.78, p.108-9
S. Canby, Der Glanz des Orients, Zurich, 1998, no.15, pp.56-7
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.78, p.108-9
A. Okada, "Basawan", in P. Pal (ed.), Master Artists of the Imperial Mughal Court, Marg, Mumbai, 1991, pp.4-5, fig.2
A.K. Das, Wonders of Nature, Marg, Mumbai, December 2012, pp.14, 18, fig.1.6
Z. Khanam, Birds and Animals in Mughal Miniature Painting, New Delhi, 2009, p.33
J. Seyller, "Basawan" in M.C. Beach, E. Fischer and B.N. Goswamy (eds.), Masters of Indian Painting, Artibus Asiae Supplementum 48, I /11, Zurich, 2011, p.121, no. 18
A. Qureshi de Unger, The Hunt as Metaphor in Mughal Painting, Artibus Asiae Supplementum, Zurich, 2022, fig.10ii
Divyabhanusinh, The Story of India's Cheetahs, Marg, Mumbai, 2023, p.50 and cover image
Exhibited
Arts of the Islamic Book, Asia Society, New York; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, 1982-3
Masters of the Brush: Paintings and Manuscripts from the Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984 (image used for publicity poster)
Akbar's India, Asia Society, New York; Harvard University Art Museums; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1985-6
Wonders of a Golden Age, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1987
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Masters of the Brush: Paintings and Manuscripts from the Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984 (image used for publicity poster)
Akbar's India, Asia Society, New York; Harvard University Art Museums; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1985-6
Wonders of a Golden Age, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1987
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
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