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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg Album

Object Details

Court
Mughal Court
School/Tradition
Mughal school
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History
Body Image (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
Worlds within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran (July 28 to September 16, 2012)
Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (June 24 to September 16, 2007)
Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)
Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)
South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
The Arts of South Asia (May 13, 1985 to December 2, 1985)
The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)
Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)
Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Art, Gallery 8 (July 15, 1958 to January 1, 1963)
Centennial Exhibition, West Corridor (February 25, 1956 to July 11, 1958)
Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Painting, 1955 (October 24, 1955 to November 28, 1955)
Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting, 1947 (April 23 to September 30, 1947)
Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting (December 20, 1944 to April 23, 1947)
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Artist
Bichitr (active between ca. 1615 -1640)
Margins by Muhammad Sadiq
Date
ca. 1615-1618, margins 1747-48
Period
Mughal dynasty, Reign of Jahangir
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Medium
Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Dimensions
H x W (image): 25.3 × 18 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in)
H x W (border): 46.9 × 30.7 cm (18 7/16 × 12 1/16 in)
Type
Album
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