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first half of 17th century
Object PlaceDeccan, Southern India
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions27.2 x 19.2 cm (10 11/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.656
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsOn front, at top, in Persian: "Din Muhammad Khan"
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).
Bangal Ragini, from an illustrated Ragamala series
Rukn-ul-din
dated V.S. 1751 (= A.D. 1694)
Muhammad Nir
end of 18th century
Mother and Child Reclining
Mirza Muhammad al-Hasani
early 17th century
Persian Calligraphy
Muhammad
mid-17th century
Princess and Ladies (reverse: Persian calligraphy)
Muhammad Mu'min al-Husaini
Late 17th century
A Persian Quatrain from Hafiz
Muhammad Baqir
AH 1183 = 1769–70
An Englishman being carried in a palanquin
Shaykh Muhammad Amir
1830–35
Firdawsi's "Shahnama":Meeting of Zal and Rudaba
Qivam al-Din Hasan of Shiraz
1341