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Equestrian Portrait of Shah Alam II

Indian
Later Mughal period
18th century
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 23.5 × 17.7 cm (9 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.667
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsInscription in Persian above the figure: "Il Sultan Al ‘Adil ‘Ali-Guhar" (Shah ‘Alam II).
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).