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Dying Inayat Khan

(Indian, active about 1600–1640)
1618–19
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and light wash on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 10.3 × 13.3 cm (4 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.679
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
Abdullah Khan Uzbeg Hawking
Abu'l-Hasan
about 1618
Birth of the Virgin
Copy, about 1610, of a 1581 engraving
Portrait of a Maulvi
early 16th century
Portrait of a seated man
18th–19th century
Dancer
Sahib Ram
Late 18th–early 19th century