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Kingfisher
Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Mansur (Indian, active about 1590–1625)
about 1620
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions24.7 x 16.2 cm (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.682
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsInscription in back: in scribbled Hindi and English, apparently identifying previous owner (Delhi) and prince (I Rupee)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).
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