ManoharIndia
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Londra, Regno Unito
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- Verificato
- 9 giorni fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
About the painting
This painting depicts the emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658) riding on a pale grey horse through a landscape accompanied by his son, Dara Shokuh. Various retainers accompany them on foot. An attribution to the artist Manohar is written in black ink beneath the painting. Manohar was one of the leading artists of Jahangir's reign, and there seems little doubt that the painting is by him and that the original subject was Jahangir, riding with his son Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. Their faces have been replaced by the features of Shah Jahan and his own son, Dara Shokuh, with minuscule inscriptions next to each identifying the portraitist as Murar. Murar's known work falls during the reign of Shah Jahan after his accession in 1628.
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The folio which has fine calligraphy on the other side belonged to an album of Shah Jahan that was dismembered at an unknown date, and was consigned with other folios for sale at Sotheby's, London, in 1925. The lot was described as the property of "a Nobleman", who was said at the time to be Lord Minto.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- IM.12-1925
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Fonti
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 9 giorni fa
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
