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A FALCON ON A LEAFY BRANCH
MUGHAL INDIA, MID 17TH CENTURY
Black and grey ink on buff paper, the falcon sits on a leafy branch, a thin red cord hanging from its neck, laid down between minor red and black borders on wide silver margins decorated with flowering vine, some worm holing, mounted, framed and glazed
Drawing 6 7/8 x 4in. (17.4 x 10cm.); folio 10¼ x 6 7/8in. (26.2 x 17.4cm.)
來源
Lloyd Collection, London
Sold Colnaghi, London, Indian Painting, 1978
出版
Toby Falk, Ellen Smart and Robert Skelton, Indian Painting, London 1978, no.27, pp.36 and 90
展覽
Indian Painting, P & D Colnaghi and Co., London, 1978.

拍品專文

The Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-27) is known for his interest in the natural world. The output of his atelier reflected this interest producing many fine naturalistic depictions of plants, animals and birds. The account of Jahangir's reign - the Jahangirnama recounts that the Safavid Shah of Iran sent a falcon to Jahangir as a gift. The bird was so admired by Jahangir that he ordered his famous court painter Ustad Mansour to 'paint and preserve its likeness' (Som Prakash Verma, 'Portraits of Birds and Animals under Jahangir,' in Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art, Mumbai 1999, pp.12-13). The painting which is most probably the very same work mentioned in the Jahangirnama by Mansur is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (inv. 14.683; Som Prakash Verma, op.cit, fig.1, p.13). The attention paid to the layering of the feathers of the falcon by Mansur is mirrored in our present work. A further depiction of a falcon in the Chester Beatty Library with very closely related feathers on the underside of the body is attributed by Linda Leach to the Deccan circa 1750-70 (Linda York Leach, Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, vol.II, Dublin, 1995, No.9.671, p.936). Leach attributed the comparable falcon to the Deccan, probably Bijapur; principally due to the rust-brown coloured background. Leach recognizes that the Chester Beatty example is also inspired by the falcon paintings commissioned at the court of Jahangir.

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