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Muhammad Shah in a Garden
Muhammad Shah in a Garden

Muhammad Shah in a Garden

Nidha Mal (Indian, active about 1735–1775)
about 1735
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and light colors and gold on paper
Dimensions47 x 73.5 cm (18 1/2 x 28 15/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.686
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObverse: in Persian, small inscriptions identifying emperor and one courtier.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).